Theoretical Inquiry
Subtitle: Language, Linguistics, and Literature
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: December 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780300101669
Subjects: Literary theory; Philosophy of language; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Linguistics; Semiotics & Theory; Literary Criticism & Collections / Theory; General; Philology
Description: In the aftermath of debate about the death of literary theory Austin Quigley asks whether theory has failed us or we have failed literary theory. Theory can thrive, he argues, only if we understand how it can be strategically deployed to reveal what it does not presuppose.