Art and Argument

What Words Can't Do and What They Can

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

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Beskrivning

The title of this book is Art and Argument, however, these two subjects are treated in reverse order, first argument, then art. Art and Argument is an engagingly written work about how words work in the world and in art. Its freewheeling considerations range from everyday examples to speculative metaphysics, touching along the way on written works from columns by the advice doyenne Ann Landers to literature by D.H. Lawrence, the Japanese Modernist Soseki, and the Pulitzer-Prize-winning poet Steven Dunn.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2003-10-17
Mått:138 x 216 x 17 mm
Vikt:272 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:University Press of America
ISBN:9780761826996

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Mer om författaren

Bruce E. Fleming is Professor, Department of English, United States Naval Academy.

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The book attempts to analyze how language works and how it fails and how we might manage to deal with it, provided we see it as succeeding and failing in communication. In generally straightforward language, and with examples from ordinary acts of communication, Fleming attempts to find out what is at the root of the multidimensionality of communication. We do need more such readable books in this subject.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 The Ineffability of LanguageChapter 2 Worlds and the WorldChapter 3 Sex and SilenceChapter 4 The Boundary Between Words and SilenceChapter 5 What Art Is, and What It Isn'tChapter 6 True, False, or GrayChapter 7 How to Do Things With LiteratureChapter 8 EndnotesChapter 9 BibliographyChapter 10 About the AuthorChapter 11 Index