Thinking Persons
John Ellis, 14 May 1992
Addressing Frank Kermode: Essays in Criticism and Interpretation
edited by Margaret Tudeau-Clayton and Martin Warner.
Macmillan, 218 pp., £40, July 1991,9780333531372 Show More
edited by Margaret Tudeau-Clayton and Martin Warner.
Macmillan, 218 pp., £40, July 1991,
The Poverty of Structuralism: Literature and Structuralist Theory
by Leonard Jackson.
Longman, 317 pp., £24, July 1991,0 582 06697 2 Show More
by Leonard Jackson.
Longman, 317 pp., £24, July 1991,
Inconvenient Fictions: Literature and the Limits of Theory
by Bernard Harrison.
Yale, 293 pp., £25, September 1991,0 300 05057 7 Show More
by Bernard Harrison.
Yale, 293 pp., £25, September 1991,
Reading Minds: The Study of English in the Age of Cognitive Science
by Mark Turner.
Princeton, 298 pp., £18.99, January 1992,0 691 06897 6 Show More
by Mark Turner.
Princeton, 298 pp., £18.99, January 1992,
Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics
by Gary Saul Morson and Caryl Emerson.
Stanford, 530 pp., $49.50, December 1990,0 8047 1821 0 Show More
by Gary Saul Morson and Caryl Emerson.
Stanford, 530 pp., $49.50, December 1990,
“... understand it, and that its founder said what he plainly did say? The political theorist Stephen Holmes gives an interesting possible answer for the analogous case of anti-liberal political thought. At first, extreme claims are made, but under challenge there is a retreat to watered-down versions so ordinary that they can not be objected to. This shift from ... ”