Unorthodox Views: Reflections on Reality, Truth, and Meaning in Current Social, Cultural, and Critical Discourse - Couverture rigide

Battersby, James L.

 
9780313321665: Unorthodox Views: Reflections on Reality, Truth, and Meaning in Current Social, Cultural, and Critical Discourse
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0313321663 ISBN 13 : 9780313321665
Editeur : Praeger Publishers Inc, 2002

Synopsis

Much of contemporary critical theory holds that meaning is relative and subjective. This book scrutinizes the principal assumptions and beliefs about mind, language, meaning, truth, and reality governing current debate and discussion not only in literary criticism and theory but also in the broader academic culture. In doing so, the volume brings support to the growing number of scholars who are expressing renewed interest in authors, determinate meanings, formal and aesthetic issues, and related concerns, but who have been laboring without sufficient theoretical arguments or justifications. Moving beyond critique, the book offers rigorous defenses of alternatives to the prevailing critical orthodoxies.

The first five chapters address foundational issues, arguing against or exposing the limitations of the most common forms of linguistic idealism, social constructivism, and relativism. These initial chapters prepare the way for subsequent discussions of more text-based matters, such as the authorial determination of artistic effects, the bases of our emotional and evaluative responses to fiction, the justifications of our decisions about intrinsic merit and artistic value, and other matters crucial to our understanding of the meanings and values implicit in human expression.

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À propos de l?auteur

JAMES L. BATTERSBY is Professor Emeritus of English at Ohio State University and has previously taught at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published extensively on 18th-century literature and criticism, the works of Samuel Johnson, and modern critical theory. His most recent books include Paradigms Regained: Pluralism and the Practice of Criticism (1991) and Reason and the Nature of Texts (1996).

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Éditeur
Praeger Publishers Inc
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0313321663
ISBN 13 
9780313321665
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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