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Hardcover:
9780754679813 | Ashgate Pub Co, January 1, 2012, cover price $149.95
9780226487908, titled "Case Law System in America" | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 1, 1989, cover price $29.95 | also contains Case Law System in America | About this edition: Book by Llewellyn, Karl N.
Paperback:
9780979761300 | Lightning Source Inc, January 30, 2008, cover price $10.00
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9780415368476 | 1 edition (Routledge, December 12, 2007), cover price $51.95
Product Description: Across the academy, disciplines flock for scientific status, keen to demonstrate that their approach to their subject matter is "scientific." How might literary criticism achieve anything like this sort of methodological consonance? Looking at the history of twentieth-century attempts, from Northrop Frye's macrostructural systematizing and Roman Jakobson's microstructural analysis, through to the collapse of the structuralist project and the recent strategic embrace of evolutionary psychology and cognitive science, this book looks at what hopes remain for a "science" of literary criticism and draws on the work of such thinkers as Richard Dawkins, Hilary Putnam, Richard Rorty, and Kurt Vonnegut to investigate the consequences of adopting a scientific perspective toward literary study...read more
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9781611482836 | Bucknell Univ Pr, June 1, 2007, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Across the academy, disciplines flock for scientific status, keen to demonstrate that their approach to their subject matter is "scientific.
Miscellaneous:
9780203987902 | Routledge, October 30, 2003, cover price $55.95
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