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Rhetorical Investigations: Studies in Ordinary Language Criticism

Rhetorical Investigations: Studies in Ordinary Language Criticism

Jost, Walter

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ISBN10: 0813922496
ISBN13: 9780813922492
Publisher: Univ Of Virginia Pr
Published: Apr 30 2004
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.44
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.22 Depth: 9.56
Language: English

In Rhetorical Investigations Walter Jost juxtaposes problems and questions in philosophy and literature, using rhetoric as the middle term and common ground between them. Drawing on the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Stanley Cavell, among others, Jost joins a small band of contemporary literary critics who are rethinking theory beyond the apriorism of much poststructuralism and its built-in reading against the grain. By elaborating an ordinary language criticism stabilized in grammatical and rhetorical possibilities of language rather than in empirical actualities, Jost shows how literary critics at all levels, from the undergraduate to the sophisticated theorist, pose as they read, trying out performances of the words as claims to self-knowledge as well as cultural critique.

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