Reason and the Nature of Texts
- Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press 1996
- 198p
includes index and biblioraphy
Introduction: Language in Use, or the Semantics of Presence Authors and Books: The Return of the Dead from the Graveyard of Theory The Inevitability of Professing Literature Professionalism, Relativism, and Rationality Ideology, Textual Practice, and Bakhtin Criticism: The More It Changes, the More It Is the Same Thing Philosophical Pluralism, Elder Olson, and Postanalytic Philosophy Genre: A Matter of Form, a Form of Matter Teaching Critical Principles in Introductory Literature Courses