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Peer reviewedHarris, Wendell V. – College English, 1983
Suggests that contemporary critical literary theories such as hermaneutics, reader-response, speech-act, structuralism, and deconstructionism share with pre-Platonic Eleatic thought a distrust of cause-and-effect reasoning and an emphasis on paradox. (MM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Intellectual History, Literary Criticism, Literature Appreciation
