Rhetoric, Literature, and Interpretation

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Harry Raphael Garvin
Bucknell University Press, 1983 - 184 páginas
In what sense does the literary critic exist in his own right, and in what way does his role go beyond that of the teacher, mystic, philologist, historian, philosopher, rhetorician, and literary artist? This issue of the Bucknell Review focuses on the opposition of rhetoric and interpretation, presenting essays which explore the problems and possibilities critics confront when they adopt either interpretation or rhetoric as a critical starting point. Illustrated.
 

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Milton Mary Shelley and Patriarchy
19
Hermeneutics from Gadamer to Poeggeler
48
The Case of HD
65
The Hypocritic and the Poet
80
The Economics of the Literary Text
97
Notes toward a Marxist Rhetoric
126
Literature Rhetoric Interpretation
149
The Power of Nothing in Women in Love
151
Pragmatics in Wonderland
165
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Página 27 - Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly Thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st ; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dovelike satst brooding on the vast abyss...
Página 23 - Milton's Devil as a moral being is as far superior to his God, as one who perseveres in some purpose which he has conceived to be excellent in spite of adversity and torture, is to one who in the cold security of undoubted triumph inflicts the most horrible revenge upon his enemy, not from any mistaken notion of inducing him to repent of a perseverance in enmity, but with the alleged design of exasperating him to deserve new torments.
Página 23 - The only imaginary being resembling in any degree Prometheus, is Satan; and Prometheus is, in my judgement, a more poetical character than Satan, because, in addition to courage, and majesty, and firm and patient opposition to omnipotent force...

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