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Book cover image of Literary Theory After Davidson by Reed Way Dasenbrock

Authors: Reed Way Dasenbrock
ISBN-13: 9780271023274, ISBN-10: 0271023279
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Date Published: June 1989
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Reed Way Dasenbrock

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Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: Davidson and Literary Theory1
Do We Write the Text We Read?18
Interpretation and Triangulation: A Davidsonian Critique of Reader-Oriented Literary Theory37
The Scrutable Subject: Davidson, Literary Theory, and the Claims of Knowledge59
Strict Constructionism: Davidsonian Realism and the World of Belief92
Analytic Philosophy's Narrative Turn: Quine, Rorty, Davidson124
Truth-Conditions, Rhetoric, and Logical Form: Davidson and Deconstruction144
On the Very Idea of a Literal Meaning160
The Dream of a Common Language180
Davidson and Dummett on Language and Interpretation201
What Causal Explanation Leaves Out: Davidson's Causal-Action Theory as a Tool for Practical Judgment232
Writing Action: Davidson, Rationality, and Literary Research257
Davidson and the Politics of Relativism: A Response286
Locating Literary Language295
About the Contributors309
Index311

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