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Overview"In 'Rhetorical Investigations', Walter Jost juxtaposes problems and questions in philosophy and literature, using rhetoric as the middle term and common ground between them. Drawing on the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Stanley Cavell, among others, Jost joins a small band of contemporary literary critics who are rethinking theory beyond the apriorism of much poststructuralism and its built-in reading against the grain. By elaborating an ""ordinary language criticism"" stabilized in grammatical and rhetorical possibilities of language rather than in empirical actualities, Jost shows how literary critics at all levels, from the undergraduate to the sophisticated theorist, ""pose"" as they read, trying out ""performances"" of the words as claims to self-knowledge as well as cultural critique. In the second half of the book, Jost examines the ""low modernist"" poetry of Robert Frost, finding in Frost's work a ""scene of instruction"" through which underappreciated resources for criticism can be recovered in the traditions of rhetoric, hermeneutics, pragmatism, and ordinary language philosophy. Rhetorical Investigations promises no convenient methods and no simple answers to questions of meanin" Full Product DetailsAuthor: Walter JostPublisher: University of Virginia Press Imprint: University of Virginia Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.663kg ISBN: 9780813922492ISBN 10: 0813922496 Pages: 368 Publication Date: 30 April 2004 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviewsWhen it comes to rhetoric and the question of its potential role in literary-philosophical analysis, I can hardly think of a more insightful book than this. It is accomplished, distinguished, and makes a genuine contribution to many different fields of thought. - Anthony Cascardi, University of California, Berkeley, author of The Subject of Modernity Author InformationWalter Jost, Professor of English at the University of Virginia, is the author of Rhetorical Thought in John Henry Newman and has coedited several books, most recently (with Wendy Olmsted) A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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