Tallis Theorrhoea and After

Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-1-349-27100-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 234 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

Theorrhoea and After completes the work of the author's previous critiques which demolished post-Saussurean thought and observes the tactics used by theorists to keep theory alive. He then moves on to examine literature and the other arts from a viewpoint that goes beyond the ideas of those bewitched by contemporary postmodernist thought. Witty and profound, it aims to entertain as well as illuminate and is a notable continuation of the arguments advanced by one of today's leading cultural critics.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tallis, Raymond

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface PART ONE: THEORRHOEA Theorrhoea Contra Realism The Survival of Theory 'He Never Said That' Overstanding the Text Moral Overstanding or Halo-tosis The Case of the Judge's Buttocks or Making an Ass of the Law Conceptual Houses The Strange Case of Jacques L. INTERMEZZO Criticism Terminable and Interminable: the Place of Literary Criticism in a Life of Finite Duration PART TWO: AFTER The Freezing Coachman Serious Fun The Difficulty of Arrival The Referents of Music The Dimensions of Art Metaphysics and Gossip The Work of Art in an Age of Electronic Reproduction Coda A Far Violin Index

Über Autor(innen)

RAYMOND TALLIS is Professor of Geriatric Medicine, University of Manchester. He is a Honorary Consultant in health care of the elderly, Salford Royal Hospitals Trust.