The Power Of Tautology: The Roots of Literary Theory
Book Details
Author(s)Allen Thiher
PublisherFairleigh Dickinson
ISBN / ASIN0838637523
ISBN-139780838637524
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Sales Rank5,967,383
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Much literary theory is based on tautological reasoning, and circular definitions are often the springboard to theorizing about causal connections. Five chapters of this book pursue this argument by studying dominant theoretical models. The culminating point of theorizing through tautologies is reached finally in the poststructuralist theories of Lacan and Derrida, antitheoretical theorists who define literature as the play of linguistic difference.






