Böcker av Garrett Stewart

In The One, Other, and Only Dickens, Garrett Stewart casts new light on those delirious wrinkles of wording that are one of the chief pleasures of Dickens's novels but that go regularly unnoticed in Dickensian criticism: the linguistic infrastructure of his textured prose. Stewart, in effect, looks over the reader's shoulder in shared...

To take the measure of literary writing, The Deed of Reading convenes diverse philosophic commentary on the linguistics of literature, with stress on the complementary work of Stanley Cavell and Giorgio Agamben.

Brings together linguistically informed criticism with more philosophically oriented literary theory. In this book, the resulting vision of literature is odd, personal, passionate, and even outlandish. It suggests a breakthrough in stylistic criticism so radical as to revitalize the entire field.