Unorthodox views
Subtitle: reflections on reality, truth, and meaning in current social, cultural, and critical discourse
By: James L. Battersby.
Series: Contributions to the study of world literature,; no. 111
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Criticism -- History -- 20th century.; Relativity.; Deconstruction.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-228) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: SECTION ONE: LANGUAGE, TRUTH, AND REALITY; title: 1 The Truth Is, There Is No Truth; title: 2 Realism and Truth, Together Again; title: 3 Conceptual Relativity and Relativism; title: 4 Determinate Meanings and Coherent Messages; title: 5 Paying Deference to Reference; title: SECTION TWO: FACT, FICTION, AND METHOD; title: 6 Fact, Fiction, Belief, and Emotion; title: 7 Incommensurability, Rational Method, and "Anything Goes"; title: SECTION THREE: INTERPRETATION, POLITICS, AND; title: LITERARY VALUES; title: 8 Agents, Makings, and Meanings; title: 9 Human Universals, Politics, and Literary Value; title: 10 Humanism and Intercultural Critique; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.