When words lose their meaning: Constitutions and reconstitutions of language, character, and community
Author(s)
White, James Boyd
White, James Boyd
Through fresh readings of texts ranging from Homer's Iliad, Swift's Tale of a Tub, and Austen's Emma through the United States Constitution and McCulloch v. Maryland, James Boyd White examines the relationship between an individual mind and its language and culture as well as the "textual community" established between writer and audience. These striking textual analyses develop a rhetoric--a "way of reading" that can be brought to any text but that, in broader terms, becomes a way of learning that can shape the reader's life.
| Name in long format: | When words lose their meaning: Constitutions and reconstitutions of language, character, and community |
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| ISBN-10: | 0226895017 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780226895017 |
| Book pages: | 377 |
| Book language: | en |
| Edition: | 1st Edition |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Publisher: | University of Chicago Press |
