Listening on All Sides: Toward an Emersonian Ethics of Reading

by Richard Deming

Bringing together Continental literary theory and Anglo-American philosophy, Listening on All Sides reads the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville, Nathanial Hawthorne, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams to uncover the role literary texts play in the way that language use creates and defines culture and ethics.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804757380
• ISBN13: 9780804757386
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.0"