Reason and the Nature of Texts

James L. Battersby

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 1996

Reason and the Nature of Texts

James L. Battersby

In the series Anniversary Collection

https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512809367

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About this book

James L. Battersby argues for the authorial construction of determinate textual meaning, insisting that to think about anything at all we must be able to refer to it, and that such references are, necessarily, the semantic consequences of an author's deliberate, intentional acts.

Author / Editor information

James L. Battersby is Professor Emeritus of English, The Ohio State University, and the author of Paradigms Regained: Pluralism and the Practice of Criticism, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Reviews

"Battersby says things that need to be said, draws support from important philosophers of language, and is able to write wittily and engagingly without diluting his arguments."—Wendell V. Harris, Pennsylvania State University

"Battersby takes on the current orthodoxy vigorously, intelligently, and often splenetically. I agree with Battersby far more than I disagree; more importantly, where I disagree, I come away from the encounter with something gained from it."—Reed Dasenbrock, New Mexico State University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	IX
Introduction: Language in Use, or the Semantics of Presence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Authors and Books: The Return of the Dead from the Graveyard of Theory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	18
2. The Inevitability of Professing Literature Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
3. Professionalism, Relativism, and Rationality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
4. Ideology, Textual Practice, and Bakhtin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
5. Criticism: The More It Changes, the More It Is the Same Thing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
6. Philosophical Pluralism, Elder Olson, and Postanalytic Philosophy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
7. Genre: A Matter of Form, a Form of Matter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
8. Teaching Critical Principles in Introductory Literature Courses Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Edition: Reprint 2016
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 216
Keywords: Literature; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: November 11, 2016
ISBN: 9781512809367