LEADER 03434oam 22007454a 450 001 9910136641403321 005 20230621141040.0 010 $a1-5017-0699-3 010 $a1-5017-0700-0 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501707001 035 $a(CKB)3710000000888754 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5317845 035 $a(OCoLC)579736808 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse55756 035 $a(DE-B1597)480124 035 $a(OCoLC)958421199 035 $a(OCoLC)993551571 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501707001 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5493931 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5493931 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/59106 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000888754 100 $a19881011d1989 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSeductive Reasoning$ePluralism as the Problematic of Contemporary Literary Theory /$fby Ellen Rooney 210 $cCornell University Press$d1989 210 1$aIthaca :$cCornell University Press,$d1989. 210 4$dİ1989. 215 $a1 online resource (273 pages) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8014-2192-6 311 $a1-5017-0721-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tCONTENTS --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tABBREVIATIONS OF FREQUENTLY CITED TEXTS --$tINTRODUCTION --$t1. Reading Pluralism Symptomatically --$t2. Persuasion and the Production of Knowledge --$t3. The Limits of Pluralism Are Not Plural --$t4. "Not to Worry" : The Therapeutic Rhetoric of Stanley Fish --$t5. Not Taking Sides: Reading the Rhetoric of Persuasion --$t6. This Politics Which Is Not One --$tEPILOGUE --$tINDEX 330 $aSeductive Reasoning takes a provocative look at contemporary Anglo-American literary theory, calling into question the critical consensus on pluralism's nature and its status in literary studies. Drawing on the insights of Marxist and feminist critical theory and on the works of Althusser, Derrida, and Foucault, Rooney reads the pluralist's invitation to join in a "dialogue" as a seductive gesture. Critics who respond find that they must seek to persuade all of their potential readers. Rooney examines pluralism as a form of logic in the work of E. D. Hirsch, as a form of ethics for Wayne Booth, as a rhetoric of persuasion in the books of Stanley Fish. For Paul de Man, Rooney argues, pluralism was a rhetoric of tropes just as it was, for Fredric Jameson, a form of politics. 606 $aPluralism 606 $aPersuasion (Rhetoric) in literature 606 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 606 $aCriticism$xHistory$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $apersuasion 610 $aWayne Booth 610 $aliterary theory 610 $apluralism 610 $aFredric Jameson 610 $arhetoric 610 $aStanley Fish 610 $aE.D. Hirsch 610 $aPaul de Man 615 0$aPluralism. 615 0$aPersuasion (Rhetoric) in literature. 615 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 615 0$aCriticism$xHistory 676 $a801/.95/01 700 $aRooney$b Ellen$f1957-$01023456 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910136641403321 996 $aSeductive Reasoning$92431449 997 $aUNINA