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9780812231274 Academic Inspection Copy

Paradigms Regained

Pluralism and the Practice of Criticism
  • ISBN-13: 9780812231274
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
  • By James L. Battersby
  • Price: AUD $173.00
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  • Local release date: 27/11/1991
  • Format: Hardback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 277 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Literary theory [DSA]
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This monograph represents an effort to reclaim for literary study certain legitimate territories that have been needlessly abandoned on the theoretical battlefield. Despite assertions to the contrary by poststructuralist or new historicist critics, it contends, it is still possible to talk usefully about such issues as literary intentionality, stable references, determinate meaning and objective value judgements of literary works. The author bases his arguments not on Continental thought, but on Anglo-American analytic and pragmatic philosophers, including Donald Davidson, Michael Dummett, Nelson Goodman, Hilary Putnam, John Searle and Israel Scheffler.
By James L. Battersby
"A genuine contribution to literary theoretical debate. For once a supporter of traditional critical concepts and values has been prepared to reject the defensive anti-intellectual posture favored by so many opponents of contemporary theory and attempted to theorize his position. For this he deserves our respect." (British Journal of Aesthetics) "One of the most important books published this year." (American Literary Scholarship, 1991)
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