Giles Gunn's challenging new work is at once a passionately argued defense of the kind of moral reflection once associated in America with the writings of Lionel Trilling and Edmund Wilson, and an acknowledgement that this pragmatic legacy must be reevaluated in the light of challenges posed by structuralist and post-structuralist theory. Including discussions of such thinkers as Burke, Geertz, Bakhtin, Rorty, Trilling, and Wilson, Gunn provides a carefully delineated vision of what criticism actively engaged in its society ...
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Giles Gunn's challenging new work is at once a passionately argued defense of the kind of moral reflection once associated in America with the writings of Lionel Trilling and Edmund Wilson, and an acknowledgement that this pragmatic legacy must be reevaluated in the light of challenges posed by structuralist and post-structuralist theory. Including discussions of such thinkers as Burke, Geertz, Bakhtin, Rorty, Trilling, and Wilson, Gunn provides a carefully delineated vision of what criticism actively engaged in its society can accomplish.
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Good. No Jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Good copy with some light general wear. clean flat covers. some light edge rubbing. an occasional mark in margins in ink. 216 pages.
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Very Good+ Very good+ paperback. Spine is uncreased, binding tight and sturdy; text also very good+. Shelfwear is minimal. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book Not ex-lib. Hardcover in blue cloth, in red, blue and white jacket, 8vo.1st printing. xv + 216pp. Index, endnote. Fine/Fine. Minute touches of surface loss at tips of lower corners of boards. Else as new: clean, tight, square and unmarked. Jacket in Brodart. Prev. owner's name in small, fine hand upper corner ffep.
