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Quotes from History & Criticism — Dominick LaCapra

born 1939 United States

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Contexts of interpretation are at least three-fold; those of writing, reception, and critical reading.

History & Criticism (1985)

Rhetoric exceeds not only documentary or referential but all utilitarian, workaday, and instrumental functions of language. It involves verbal display or performance in a sense larger than that comprised in the standard notion of the “performative.”

History & Criticism (1985)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Dominick LaCapra (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.