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When Words Lose Their Meaning by James Boyd White (trade paperback, 1984)
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- 9780226895024
- Subject Area
- Law, Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines
- Publication Name
- When Words Lose Their Meaning : Constitutions and Reconstitutions of Language, Character, and Community
- Item Length
- 0.9 in
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Subject
- General, Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Rhetoric, Linguistics / General
- Publication Year
- 1985
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.1 in
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- 0.6 in
- Item Weight
- 20.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
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Through fresh readings of texts ranging from Homer's Iliad , Swift's Tale of a Tub , and Austen's Emma through the United States Constitution and McCulloch v. Maryland , James Boyd White examines the relationship between an individual mind and its language and culture as well as the "textual community" established between writer and audience. These striking textual analyses develop a rhetoric-a "way of reading" that can be brought to any text but that, in broader terms, becomes a way of learning that can shape the reader's life. "In this ambitious and demanding work of literary criticism, James Boyd White seeks to communicate 'a sense of reading in a new and different way.' . . . White's] marriage of lawyerly acumen and classically trained literary sensibility-equally evident in his earlier work, The Legal Imagination -gives the best parts of When Words Lose Their Meaning a gravity and moral earnestness rare in the pages of contemporary literary criticism."-Roger Kimball, American Scholar "James Boyd White makes a state-of-the-art attempt to enrich legal theory with the insights of modern literary theory. Of its kind, it is a singular and standout achievement. . . . White's] selections span the whole range of legal, literary, and political offerings, and his writing evidences a sustained and intimate experience with these texts. Writing with natural elegance, White manages to be insightful and inciteful. Throughout, his timely book is energized by an urgent love of literature and law and their liberating potential. His passion and sincerity are palpable."-Allan C. Hutchinson, Yale Law Journal "Undeniably a unique and significant work. . . . When Words Lose Their Meaning is a rewarding book by a distinguished legal scholar. It is a showcase for the most interesting sort of inter-disciplinary work: the kind that brings together from traditionally separate fields not so much information as ideas and approaches."-R. B. Kershner, Jr., Georgia Review
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University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226895025
ISBN-13
9780226895024
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Publication Name
When Words Lose Their Meaning : Constitutions and Reconstitutions of Language, Character, and Community
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
General, Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Rhetoric, Linguistics / General
Publication Year
1985
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Law, Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines
Number of Pages
394 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Item Weight
20.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
83-009191
Lc Classification Number
P106.W574 1985
Table of Content
Preface Acknowledgments 1. A Way of Reading 2. Poetry and the World of Two Cultural Criticism and the Ideal of Friendship in the Iliad 3. The Dissolution of Meaning Thucydides' History of His World 4. The Reconstitution of Language and Self in a Community of Two Plato's Gorgias 5. Making the Reader Make His Language Swift's A Tale of a Tub 6. Teaching a Language of Morality Johnson's Rambler Essays 7. "Conversation, Rational and Playful" The Language of Friendship in Jane Austen's Emma 8. Making a Public World The Constitution of Language and Community in Burke's Reflections 9. Constituting a Culture of Argument The Possibilities of American Law 10. An Afterword Bibliographies and Notes Index
Copyright Date
1984
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Decimal
801.95
Dewey Edition
23
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