Traveling with Hermes (inbunden)
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Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
160
Utgivningsdatum
1993-01-01
Förlag
University of Massachusetts Press
Dimensioner
230 x 152 x 19 mm
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1
ISBN
9780870238154

Traveling with Hermes

Hermeneutics and Rhetoric

av Bruce Krajewski
Inbunden,  Engelska, 1993-01-01
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A venture into the realm of contemporary literary theory, this book takes as its point of departure ""the nexus between philosophical hermeneutics and rhetoric"" that Hans-Georg Gadamer discusses in his writings. But rather that explicating Gadamer's theoretical insights, Bruce Krajewski applies them to a series of discrete texts, from Jan Steen;s ""Rhetoricians at a Window"" to Shakespeare's ""Coriolanus"", to the postmodernist film ""Brazil"". In the course of his readings, Krajewski explores the complex relationships between truth-telling and lying, being and non-being, clarity and obscurity, the fixed and the unstable, and the extraordinary and the commonplace. Underlying these dichotomies is an even more fundamental opposition between two approaches to language and discourse. One is the way of philosophy and linguistics, where the objective is to reduce language to its purest logical forms. The other is the way of hermeneutics and rhetoric, where the aim is to preserve the multifariousness of discourse as it occurs concretely in everyday life. Krajewski's goal throughout is to underscore the extent to which understanding is not a private but a social act. For meaning, he argues, can never be divorced from experience.
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Krajewski's book is quite an extraordinary journey. Instead of the usual step-by-step progress that the rest of us try to develop with our arguments and analyses, Krajewski moves by weaving together voices from an incredible range of texts and contexts. It is a daring method. He is provocative, unnerving, maddening, and always one step ahead. . . . It is a book designed to get under the reader's skin as much as into his or her head. By turns playful, angry, lyrical, outrageous--but always coming up with something new.--Gerald Bruns, Notre Dame University I know of no other single work that can range over the history of hermeneutics and put it consistently, and often ingeniously, to work.--Andrew Parker, Amherst College

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Bruce Krajewski is assistant professor of English at Laurentian University.

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