Listening on All Sides: Toward an Emersonian Ethics of Reading

by Richard Deming

In Listening on All Sides, Richard Deming finds an intersection of literature and philosophy in the poetics of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville, Nathanial Hawthorne, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams that offers aesthetic models for the construction of community. Building on the work of Stanley Cavell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and J. L. Austin, Deming challenges current trends in American literary studies and advances the newly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804757380
• ISBN13: 9780804757386
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.0"