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The Seductive Reasoning: Feminine Channeling, the Occult, and Communication Technologies, 1859-1919

The Seductive Reasoning: Feminine Channeling, the Occult, and Communication Technologies, 1859-1919

Rooney, Ellen

Hardcover

PhilosophyLiterary CriticismLogic

ISBN10: 0801421926
ISBN13: 9780801421921
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: Apr 6 1989
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Seductive Reasoning takes a provocative look at contemporary Anglo-American literary theory, calling into question the critical consensus on pluralism's nature and its status in literary studies. Drawing on the insights of Marxist and feminist critical theory and on the works of Althusser, Derrida, and Foucault, Rooney reads the pluralist's invitation to join in a dialogue as a seductive gesture. Critics who respond find that they must seek to persuade all of their potential readers. Rooney examines pluralism as a form of logic in the work of E. D. Hirsch, as a form of ethics for Wayne Booth, as a rhetoric of persuasion in the books of Stanley Fish. For Paul de Man, Rooney argues, pluralism was a rhetoric of tropes just as it was, for Fredric Jameson, a form of politics.

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