Aylesworth Gary E Editor (3 results)

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Clean, sturdy, unmarked copy in very good condition. Light wear to corners and edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardbound with decorative cover, no dust jacket. Name written on front free endpaper, else unmarked with modest usage wear.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. [From the library of noted scholar Richard A. Macksey.] Hardcover. No dust jacket, as issued. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Corner bumped. Clean, unmarked pages. xix, 274 pages, 24 cm. The Textual Sublime is particularly concerned with how a text (philosophical or literary) sets its own limits, borders, and margins, how it delimits what constitutes the text per se and how it invokes at the same time what is not determinately in the text. The textual sublime is that aspect of a text that deconstruction shows to be both an element of the text and what surpasses the text, what takes it outside itself (in view of alternatives and alterities) and what ties it to differing philosophical, rhetorical, historical, and critical practices. "Richard A. Macksey was a celebrated Johns Hopkins University professor whose affiliation with the university spanned six and a half decades. A legendary figure not only in his own fields of critical theory, comparative literature, and film studies but across all the humanities, Macksey possessed enormous intellectual capacity and a deeply insightful human nature. He was a man who read and wrote in six languages, was instrumental in launching a new era in structuralist thought in America, maintained a personal library containing a staggering collection of books and manuscripts, inspired generations of students to follow him to the thorniest heights of the human intellect, and penned or edited dozens of volumes of scholarly works, fiction, poetry, and translation." - Johns Hopkins University.…