Reception Histories: Rhetoric, Pragmatism, and American Cultural Politics Export

@book{citeulike:869713, abstract = {{In his earlier Rhetorical Power Steven Mailloux presented an innovative and challenging strategy for combining critical theory and cultural studies. That book has stimulated wide-ranging discussion and debate among diverse audiences--students and specialists in American studies, speech communications, rhetoric/composition, law, education, biblical studies, and especially literary theory and cultural criticism. Reception Histories marks a further development of Mailloux's influential critical project, as he demonstrates how rhetorical hermeneutics uses rhetoric to practice theory by doing history. <P>Reception Histories works out in detail what rhetorical hermeneutics means in terms of poststructuralist theory (Part One), nineteenth-century U.S. cultural studies (Part Two), and the contemporary history of curricular reform within the so-called Culture Wars (Part Three). Mailloux situates, defends, and elaborates the theory he first proposed in Rhetorical Power, and he exemplifies it with a new series of provocative reception histories. He also both critiques and reconceptualizes the version of reader response criticism he developed in his first book, Interpretive Conventions. <P>Throughout Reception Histories, Mailloux demonstrates his distinctive blend of neopragmatism and cultural rhetoric study. By tracing the rhetorical paths of thought, this book offers a new way to read the current volatile debates over higher education and contributes its own original proposals for shaping the future of the humanities.}}, author = {Mailloux, Steven}, citeulike-article-id = {869713}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&amp;path=ASIN/0801485061}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike01-21&amp;path=ASIN/0801485061}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike06-21&amp;path=ASIN/0801485061}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0801485061/citeulike00-21}, citeulike-linkout-4 = {http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike07-20&path=ASIN/0801485061}, citeulike-linkout-5 = {http://www.worldcat.org/isbn/0801485061}, citeulike-linkout-6 = {http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0801485061}, citeulike-linkout-7 = {http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?keywords=0801485061&index=books&linkCode=qs}, citeulike-linkout-8 = {http://www.librarything.com/isbn/0801485061}, day = {31}, howpublished = {Paperback}, isbn = {0801485061}, keywords = {method, readers, rhetoric}, month = {August}, posted-at = {2006-09-26 02:16:16}, priority = {5}, publisher = {{Cornell university press}}, title = {Reception Histories: Rhetoric, Pragmatism, and American Cultural Politics}, url = {http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike07-20&path=ASIN/0801485061}, year = {1998} }

TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:869713 L3 - citeulike-article-id:869713 N2 - {In his earlier Rhetorical Power Steven Mailloux presented an innovative and challenging strategy for combining critical theory and cultural studies. That book has stimulated wide-ranging discussion and debate among diverse audiences--students and specialists in American studies, speech communications, rhetoric/composition, law, education, biblical studies, and especially literary theory and cultural criticism. Reception Histories marks a further development of Mailloux's influential critical project, as he demonstrates how rhetorical hermeneutics uses rhetoric to practice theory by doing history. <P>Reception Histories works out in detail what rhetorical hermeneutics means in terms of poststructuralist theory (Part One), nineteenth-century U.S. cultural studies (Part Two), and the contemporary history of curricular reform within the so-called Culture Wars (Part Three). Mailloux situates, defends, and elaborates the theory he first proposed in Rhetorical Power, and he exemplifies it with a new series of provocative reception histories. He also both critiques and reconceptualizes the version of reader response criticism he developed in his first book, Interpretive Conventions. <P>Throughout Reception Histories, Mailloux demonstrates his distinctive blend of neopragmatism and cultural rhetoric study. By tracing the rhetorical paths of thought, this book offers a new way to read the current volatile debates over higher education and contributes its own original proposals for shaping the future of the humanities.} SN - 0801485061 TI - Reception Histories: Rhetoric, Pragmatism, and American Cultural Politics PB - {Cornell university press} KW - method KW - readers KW - rhetoric AU - Mailloux, Steven PY - 1998/08/31/ UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&amp;path=ASIN/0801485061 ER -