Hence the title, "Self-Consuming Artifacts." The reader ofĬourse participates in making gratuitous what he reads: that is the writer's As the end is achieved,Īs the reader is taught the futility of attaining truth through art, the work of art The end is not corroborating but transforming. The world it presents is irrational, as with the mode of presentation.
Writing, which begins with the "good physician"-P latoĪugustine his successor-is also heuristic but seeks not to flatter, rather to disorient the reader. Knows to be true, whether palatable or otherwise, about the world dialectical Rhetorical writing is discursive, tells the reader what he already Stanley Fish's important book on the experience of reading selected seventeenthcentury writers enforces a dichotomy between "rhetorical" and "dialectical" modes Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1972. Italics mine) disrupt the Stimmung of the context for the sake of a relativelyīy Stanley E.
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