Literary Theory - General & Miscellaneous, Language & Linguistics, Language & Culture
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Overview
Through fresh readings of texts ranging from Homer's Iliad, Swift's Tale of a Tub, and Austen's Emma through the United States Constitution and McCulloch v. Maryland, James Boyd White examines the relationship between an individual mind and its language and culture as well as the "textual community" established between writer and audience. These striking textual analyses develop a rhetoric--a "way of reading" that can be brought to any text but that, in broader terms, becomes a way of learning that can shape the reader's life.Book Details
Published
June 1, 1984
Publisher
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1984.
Pages
378
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780226895017