Seductive Reasoning: Pluralism as the Problematic of Contemporary Literary Theory
Author:   Ellen Rooney
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
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9781501707216


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 November 2016
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
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Author:   Ellen Rooney
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
Imprint:   Cornell University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781501707216


ISBN 10:   1501707213
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 November 2016
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   English

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"1. Reading Pluralism Symptomatically 2. Persuasion and the Production of Knowledge 3. The Limits of Pluralism Are Not Plural 4. ""Not to Worry"": The Therapeutic Rhetoric of Stanley Fish 5. Not Taking Sides: Reading the Rhetoric of Persuasion 6. This Politics Which Is Not One"

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Difference excludes. On this irreducible principle of irreducibility much literary theory is founded. With its internal drive to system and purity, theory enacts the necessity of exclusion; and so an appeal to theory often prefigures a justification of exclusion. The only contemporary movement whose relation to theory might seem ambivalent is pluralism, which, insofar as it insists on anything, insists on repressing its own exclusions. Ellen Rooney argues in her new book that pluralism maintains its identity by rigorous exclusion-'the exclusion of exclusion' itself. -Modern Philology


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Ellen Rooney is Professor of Modern Culture and Media and English at Brown University. She is coeditor of differences: a journal of feminist cultural studies and associate editor of Novel: A Forum on Fiction.

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