The Rhetoric of Empiricism: Language and Perception from Locke to I.A. RichardsEmpiricism favors the visual over the verbal, the literal over the rhetorical, the static over the temporal: This is the standard charge leveled by literary theorists and writers. It is, Jules David Law demonstrates, remarkably misguided. His ambitious and challenging book explores the interplay of language and visual perception at the heart of empiricism. A re-evaluation of the British empiricist tradition from the perspective of contemporary literary theory, it also offers a sustained challenge to theory itself. In failing to grasp the issues confronting early empiricist writers or to be fully aware of their rhetorical strategies, Law says, theory has defined itself needlessly in opposition to empiricism. -- Description from http://www.booktopia.com.au (April 19, 2012). |
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Contents
and the Empiricist Construction of Rhetoric | 19 |
Lockes Grammar of Reflection | 51 |
Berkeleys | 93 |
Burkes Analogy | 131 |
Hazlitt | 165 |
The Technique of Surface | 204 |
The | 235 |
WORKS CITED | 249 |
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