A venture into the realm of contemporary literary theory, this book
takes as its point of departure ""the nexus between philosophical
hermeneutics and rhetoric"" that Hans-Georg Gadamer discusses in
his writings. But rather that explicating Gadamer's theoretical
insights, Bruce Krajewski applies them to a series of discrete
texts, from Jan Steen;s ""Rhetoricians at a Window"" to
Shakespeare's ""Coriolanus"", to the postmodernist film ""Brazil"".
In the course of his readings, Krajewski explores the complex
relationships between truth-telling and lying, being and non-being,
clarity and obscurity, the fixed and the unstable, and the
extraordinary and the commonplace. Underlying these dichotomies is
an even more fundamental opposition between two approaches to
language and discourse. One is the way of philosophy and
linguistics, where the objective is to reduce language to its
purest logical forms. The other is the way of hermeneutics and
rhetoric, where the aim is to preserve the multifariousness of
discourse as it occurs concretely in everyday life. Krajewski's
goal throughout is to underscore the extent to which understanding
is not a private but a social act. For meaning, he argues, can
never be divorced from experience.
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