11 - Steven Mailloux
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 December 2020
Summary
And you could kind of—in my memory anyway—see Said gather himself because here's the opponent and now he's going to respond. And de Man then asked a question about what counted as radical within theory, and Said answered, but then de Man replied, and then Said responded, and this went back and forth for like 15 minutes. I still have my notes. And it was just extraordinary, as these two approaches, battling for the soul of the future of the theoretical humanities, were being performed in front of us.
Born: 1950.
Education: Loyola University of Los Angeles, BA, English; University of Southern California, MA, English, PhD, rhetoric, linguistics, and literature.
Steven Mailloux was assistant professor of English, Temple University, 1976–77; assistant professor of English, University of Miami, 1977–79; associate professor of English, University of Miami, 1979–82; professor of English, Syracuse University, 1982–86; professor of English, University of California, Irvine, 1987–91; Chancellor's Professor of rhetoric, University of California, Irvine, 1991–2010; 2009–present; President's Professor of rhetoric, Loyola Marymount University. His work in reader-response criticism and American New Pragmatism reengaged contemporary literary theory with ancient rhetoric. Rhetorical hermeneutics was his invention.
Publications
Interpretive Conventions: The Reader in the Study of American Fiction (1982), Rhetorical Power (1989), Disciplinary Identities: Rhetorical Paths of English, Speech, and Composition (2006). His influential articles include “Evaluation and Reader-Response Criticism: Values Implicit in Affective Stylistics,” Style (1976); “Stanley Fish's ‘Interpreting the Variorum’: Advance or Retreat?,” Critical Inquiry (1976); “Reader-Response Criticism?,” Genre (1977); “The Red Badge of Courage and Interpretive Conventions: Critical Response to a Maimed Text,” Studies in the Novel (1978); “Literary Criticism and Composition Theory,” College Composition and Communication (1978); “Convention and Context,” New Literary History (1983); “Truth or Consequences: On Being Against Theory,” Critical Inquiry (1983); “Rhetorical Hermeneutics,” Critical Inquiry (1985); “Judging the Judge: Billy Budd and ‘Proof to All Sophistries,’ “ Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature (1989); “Persuasions Good and Bad: Bunyan, Iser, and Fish on Rhetoric and Hermeneutics in Literature,” Studies in the Literary Imagination (1995); “Rhetoric Returns to Syracuse: Curricular Reform in English Studies,” English Studies/Culture Studies: Institutionalizing Dissent (1994);
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- The Rebirth of American Literary Theory and CriticismScholars Discuss Intellectual Origins and Turning Points, pp. 133 - 144Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2020