Onomatopoetics by Joseph F Graham
The relationship of words to the things they represent and to the mind which forms them has long been the subject of linguistic enquiry. Joseph Graham's challenging book, first published in 1992, takes this debate into the field of literary theory, making a searching enquiry into the nature of literary representation. It reviews the arguments of Plato's Cratylus on how words signify things, and of Chomsky's theory of the innate 'natural' status of language (contrasted with Saussure's notion of its essential arbitrariness). In the process, Graham explores the issues of meaning and intentionality in representation, and examines plausible theories of how the mind represents the world. He transcends the controversies amongst literary theorists, arguing that the solution lies not in epistemology or philosophy, but in psychology and the study of how literature teaches and why humans learn best by example.-
Paratexts
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Derrida and Autobiography
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Theories of Mimesis
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Chronoschisms
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Possible Worlds in Literary Theory
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Mikhail Bakhtin
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The Subject of Modernity
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Parody
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Ideology and Inscription
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Rhetoric and Culture in Lacan
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Theory and the Novel
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The Practice of Theory
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The Poetics of Personification
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The Subject and the Text
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Kenneth Burke
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Critical Conditions
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Consequences of Enlightenment
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Renegotiating Ethics in Literature, Philosophy, and Theory
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Anti-Mimesis from Plato to Hitchcock
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The Object of Literature
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Theorising Textual Subjects
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Wordsworth, Dialogics and the Practice of Criticism
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Singularities
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Rhetoric, Sophistry, Pragmatism
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Cinema, Theory, and Political Responsibility in Contemporary Culture
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Theorizing the Avant-Garde
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Novels behind Glass
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Introduction to Literary Hermeneutics
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780521400787 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521400783 |
| Title | Onomatopoetics |
| Author | Joseph F Graham |
| Series | Literature Culture Theory |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 1992-04-09 |
| Number of pages | 330 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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