Realism and the Drama of Reference Fred Thompson In the years surrounding the

In the years surrounding the Scopes trial in 1925

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the relevance of rhetoric and the history of rhetoric to philosophy and the history of philosophy is reasserted

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Realism and the Drama of Reference Fred Thompson In the years surrounding theThis book brings the problem of reference how language discloses the world into contemporary critical debates about representation, and explores the potential of reference in the work of three authors in the realistic tradition: Balzac, Flaubert, and James. By defining realism in terms of linguistic practices instead of representational accuracy, this study liberates reference from traditional realist concerns with the empirical universe. Realism thus