When Words Lose Their Meaning: Constitut
โ James Boyd White
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๐
1984
๐ English
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When Words Lose Their Meaning: Constitutions and Reconstitutions of Language, Character, and Community
โ Scribed by James Boyd White
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Year
- 1985
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 394
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
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 rhetoricโa "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.
โฆ Table of Contents
Dedication
Contents
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: Thucydidesโ History of His World
4. The Reconstitution of Language and Self in a Community of Two: Platoโs Gorgias
5. Making the Reader Make His Language: Swiftโs A Tale of a Tub
6. Teaching a Language of Morality: Johnsonโs Rambler Essays
7. โConversation, Rational and Playfulโ: The Language of Friendship in Jane Austenโs Emma
8. Making a Public World: The Constitution of Language and Community in Burkeโs Reflections
9. Constituting a Culture of Argument: The Possibilities of American Law
10. An Afterword
Bibliographies and Notes
Index
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