Literature, Rhetoric, Metaphysics: Literary Theory and Literary Aesthetics

by James Kirwan

This study asks whether literary criticism can be consistent with the literary text or whether it always frustrates the aims and methods of literary theory. The author examines the whole history of writing on literature, from Plato to Derrida.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415048494
• ISBN13: 9780415048491
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 212 Pages
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher