TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rooney, Ellen
AB  - <p>Seductive 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.<p>
ID  - OAPEN ID: 19899
KW  - persuasion
KW  - Wayne Booth
KW  - literary theory
KW  - pluralism
KW  - Fredric Jameson
KW  - rhetoric
KW  - Stanley Fish
KW  - E.D. Hirsch
KW  - Paul de Man
L1  - http://d3p9z3cj392tgc.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/23180407/9781501707216.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/59106
PB  - Cornell University Press
PY  - 1989
SN  - 9781501707216
TI  - Seductive Reasoning : Pluralism as the Problematic of Contemporary Literary Theory
ER  - 
