Author: Mailloux, Steven
Title: Reception Histories: Rhetoric, Pragmatism, and American Cultural Politics
Description: Ithaca [NY], Cornell University Press, (1998). orig. boards. 23x15cm, xvi,206 pp. Minor rubbing. Small label to rear cover. VG. ¶ Contents: Rhetorical Pragmatism; Articulation and Understanding; The Sophistry of Rhetorical Pragmatism; Interpretation and Rhetorical Hermeneutics; Cultural Rhetoric Study; Ideological Rhetoric and Bible Politics: Fuller Reading Douglass; Good and Bad Persuasions: Critics Reading Bunyan"; The Use and Abuse of Fiction: Readers Eating Books; Rhetorical Studies and the Culture Wars; Rhetoric Returns to Syracuse: The Reception of Curricular Reform; Rhetorical Studies: Future Prospects; Appendix: Major in English and Textual Studies, Syracuse University.

Keywords: American Literary History, Literature, United States, Cultural Politics, Multiculturalism, Criticism, Reader-Response, Culture Conflict, Pragmatism