Rhetorical Power

by Steven Mailloux

Book Overview

In this provocative and forcefully written book, Steven Mailloux takes issue with the validity of a number of distinctions commonly made in contemporary literary theory and cultural studies--distinctions between theory and history, reader and text, truth and ideology, aesthetics and politics. Mailloux first presents the case for a rhetorical hermeneutics and against foundationalist theories of interpretation. Doing hermeneutic theory, he argues, entails...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801496020
• ISBN13: 9780801496028
• Release Date: October 1989
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher