LEADER 03255nam 22005894a 450 001 9910777854003321 005 20210527220549.0 010 $a1-281-73057-2 010 $a9786611730574 010 $a0-300-12981-5 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300129816 035 $a(CKB)1000000000471811 035 $a(StDuBDS)BDZ0022171462 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000257970 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11219064 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000257970 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10254686 035 $a(PQKB)10928884 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000158286 035 $a(DE-B1597)484997 035 $a(OCoLC)1024051346 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300129816 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420027 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10170053 035 $a(OCoLC)923589989 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420027 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000471811 100 $a20030430d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTheoretical inquiry$b[electronic resource] $elanguage, linguistics, and literature /$fAustin E. Quigley 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (1 online resource (xxii, 262 p.)) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-300-10166-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 249-254) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. Literary Theory and Linguistic Theory --$tChapter 2. Saussure, Firth, and Bakhtin: Unity, Diversity, and Theory --$tChapter 3 .Chomsky and Halliday: Novelty, Generality, and Theory --$tChapter 4. Wittgenstein: Facticity, Instrumentality, and Theory --$tChapter 5. Literary and Cultural Studies: Theory, History, and Criticism --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aIn the aftermath of debate about the death of literary theory, Austin E. Quigley asks whether theory has failed us or we have failed literary theory. Theory can thrive, he argues, only if we understand how it can be strategically deployed to reveal what it does not presuppose. This involves the repositioning of theoretical inquiry relative to historical and critical inquiry and the repositioning of theories relative to each other. What follows is a thought-provoking reexamination of the controversial claims of pluralism in literary studies. The book explores the related roles of literary history, criticism, and theory by tracing the fascinating history of linguistics as an intellectual problem in the twentieth century. Quigley's approach clarifies the pluralistic nature of literary inquiry, the viability and life cycles of theories, the controversial status of canonicity, and the polemical nature of the culture wars by positioning them all in the context of recurring debates about language that have their earliest exemplifications in classical times. 606 $aPhilology 615 0$aPhilology. 676 $a801 700 $aQuigley$b Austin E.$f1942-$0188835 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777854003321 996 $aTheoretical inquiry$93845535 997 $aUNINA