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Synopsis

By introducing readers to methods of analysis implied by cultural studies and the concept of intertextuality, feminism and the sociology of science, structuralism and deconstruction, reader-response theory and historicism, the contributors to this volume mean to extend the approaches that are available to any critic of any kind of discourse. And in choosing to illustrate each method of analysis with a consideration of a single essay on the subject of evolutionary theory, they seek to add to the developing body of scholarship on the rhetoric of science. Paper edition (13904-2), $19.95. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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About the Author

Jack Selzer is professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Kenneth Burke in Greenwich Village, published by University of Wisconsin Press, and is currently working on a sequel. Sharon Crowley is professor of English at Arizona State University. She is the author of Composition in the University and is currently working on a critique of liberal rhetorical theory.

Review

"Fascinating.  .  .  .  I learned a great deal from these approaches, and had enormous fun."—Stephen Jay Gould

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