The Rhetoric of Interpretation and the Interpretation of Rhetoric - Softcover

Hernadi, P

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822309343 ISBN 13: 9780822309345

Publisher: Duke University Press, 1989

Synopsis

The essays collected in this volume strongly suggest that the principles and operations of contemporary rhetoric and contemporary interpretation invite being studied in conjunction with each other--that the are, as Paul Hernadi puts it, siamese twins. Furthermore, a number of the essays suggest that both rhetoric and interpretation ought to be studied in conjunction with the principles and operations characteristic of contemporary descriptions and critiques of ideology.

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About the Author

Robert F. Berkhofer, Jr., was Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His many publications include "Salvation and the Savage: An Analysis of Protestant Missions and American Indian Response, 1787 1962"; "A Behavioral Approach to Historical Analysis"; and "The White Man s Indian: Images of the American Indian from Columbus to the Present".

Hayden White is professor emeritus of the history of consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His books include Metahistory, Tropics of Discourse, and The Content of the Form, all available from Johns Hopkins.

Jonathan Culler is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University and a leading figure in the world of literary theory. Praised by Frank Kermode for his 'remarkable expository skills', his publications include seminal works on deconstruction and semiology as well as studies of
individual authors. HisVSI Literary Theory is the series bestseller with sales of 40,000 copies to date.
Martin Jay is Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley, and author of The Dialectical Imagination, his classic account of the Frankfurt School, and Marxism and Totality, his history of western Marxism from Lukacs to Habermas.

Terry Eagleton is Wharton Professor of English Literature at St. Catherine's College, Oxford. One of the world's leading literary critics, his many academic books include "Literary Theory: An Introduction". He is also author of the play "Saint Oscar" and the novel "Saints and Scholars", along with two widely acclaimed studies of Ireland, "Heathcliffe and the Great Hunger" and "Crazy John and the Bishop".

Edition details

• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822309343
• ISBN 13: 9780822309345
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 210