| Disciplining the New Pragmatism: Theory, Rhetoric, and the Ends of Literary Study Contributor(s): Drong, Leszek (Author), Kalaga, Wojciech H. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820487619 ISBN-13: 9780820487618 Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing OUR PRICE: $45.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2007 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Foreign Language Study | English As A Second Language - Philosophy | Movements - Pragmatism |
| Dewey: 144.3 |
| LCCN: 2007416464 |
| Series: Literary and Cultural Theory |
| Physical Information: 244 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Disciplining the New Pragmatism is both a tribute and a corrective to the neopragmatist perspective in American literary studies. It sets out to give a detailed account of the contemporary pragmatists' views, but it also goes beyond those views to tender a new vision of the discipline of literary studies and to forge a new rhetoric, largely crafted out of tropes borrowed from their writings, which could be of service to literary scholars. Its primary objective is to argue that, despite their claims to the contrary, Richard Rorty, Walter Benn Michaels, Stanley Fish and the other latter-day antifoundationalists and neopragmatists make a difference to what is going on in the literature department. Consequently, the author argues that the neopragmatist positition may be made foar more effective and resonant than the neopragmatists themselves recognise in their writings. To this end, he offers his own category of a neosophistic pragmatism, which serves as an example of what may result from bringing the New Pragmatist insights into a sharper disciplinary focus. |