Background
Battersby, James Lyons was born on August 24, 1936 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States. Son of James Lyons and Hazel Irene (Deuel) Battersby.
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Paradigms Regained is James L Battersby's effort to reclaim for literary study certain legitimate territories that have been needlessly abandoned on the theoretical battlefield. Despite assertions to the contrary by poststructuralist or new historicist critics, Battersby contends, it is still possible to talk intelligently, rigorously, and usefully about such issues as literary intentionality, stable references, determinate meaning, and objective value judgments of literary works. What enables Battersby to make his argument is his reliance not on continental thought but on Anglo-American analytic and pragmatic philosophers, including Donald Davidson, Michael Dummett, Nelson Goodman, Hilary Putnam, John Searle, and Israel Scheffler. Battersby synthesizes and builds on their work in a way that is at once fresh and distinctive.
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( Many of today's most prominent critics and teachers of ...)
Many of today's most prominent critics and teachers of literature insist on the endless deferral of textual meaning and on the social construction of meaning and thought. Against these markers of current critical theory, James L. Battersby argues for the authorial construction of determinate textual meaning, insisting that to think about anything at all we must be able to refer to it, and that such references are, necessarily, the semantic consequences of an author's deliberate, intentional acts. Propelling Battersby's argument is his use of principles and arguments drawn from current philosophical literature on language and mind. Battersby reveals the philosophical shortcomings and argumentative weaknesses of some of the most prominent and influential doctrines in critical theory today—especially, and principally, those that inform and define postmodernism in both its linguistic and historicist/materialist modes. As he argues for a fresh conception of our understanding of language, mind, and meaning, Battersby probes the critical positions of, among others, Stanley Fish, Mikhail Bakhtin, Paul de Man, and Jacques Derrida. Making room for an alternative and, Battersby asserts, more intellectually appealing framework requires a skeptical dissection of the linguistic and historicist tenets that form the foundation of poststructuralism. The striking outcome of his effort is a book as lively, erudite, theoretically informed—and provocative—as his earlier Paradigms Regained.
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Battersby, James Lyons was born on August 24, 1936 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States. Son of James Lyons and Hazel Irene (Deuel) Battersby.
Bachelor of Science magna cum laude, U. Vermont, 1961; Master of Arts, Cornell Univercity, 1962; Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell Univercity, 1965.
Assistant professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1965-1970; associate Professor of English, Ohio State University, Columbus, 1970-1982; professor, Ohio State University, Columbus, since 1982. Consultant Ohio State University Press, U. Kentucky Press, University of California Press, Prentice-Hall, McGraw Hill, Fairleigh Dickinson U. Press, University of Michigan Press, U. Alabama Press.
( Paradigms Regained is James L Battersby's effort to rec...)
( Many of today's most prominent critics and teachers of ...)
With United States Army, 1954-1957. Member Modern Language Association, American Society 18th Century Studies, Midwest Society 18th Century Studies, Royal Oak Foundation, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Kappa Delta Pi.
Married Lisa J. Kiser, August 6, 1990. 1 child, Julie Annual.