From the Preface: The title for this collection was the title of a course in literary criticism that I gave for many years at Bennington College. And much of th

From the Preface:The title for this collection was the title of a course in literary criticism that I gave for many years at Bennington College. And much of the

From the Preface:The title for this collection was the title of a course in literary criticism that I gave for many years at Bennington College. And much of the

Language is not simply a tool for communication - symbolic power struggles underlie any speech act, discourse move, or verbal interaction, be it in face-to-face

Probes the nature of linguistic or symbolic action as it relates to specific novels, plays, and poems.