Introduction: the Quixote Trope 1
Notes Introduction: The Quixote Trope 1. As my Epilogue explores more fully, these terms stem from Nelson Goodman’s Ways of Worldmaking (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1978), 14 and passim. 2. Frederick Crews, Postmodern Pooh (New York: North Point Press, 2001), xv; Phyllis Trible, review of Leon Kass, The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis, in The New York Times Book Review (October 19, 2003): 28; Roger Kimball: The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art (San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2004), 100, 152. 3. Surprisingly (or perhaps not), there has been little scholarly attention to “over-reading.” But see “Over-Reading, Overreading, Over Reading: Implications for Teaching and Learning,” ed. Jason Snart and Dean Swinford, a special issue of Inventio: Creative Thinking and Learning 5, 1 (2003). 4. Wendy Motooka, Age of Reasons: Quixotism, Sentimentalism and Political Economy in Eighteenth-Century Britain (London: Routledge, 1998), 27. 5. Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub, ed. S. C. Guthkelch and D. Nichol Smith, second edition (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1958), 52. 6. See Barbara Johnson, “Melville’s Fist: The Execution of Billy Budd,” in The Critical Difference: Essays in the Contemporary Rhetoric of Reading (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980), 79–109. 7. J. L. Austin, How to Do Things with Words, second edition (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975), 117. 8. Bernard Mandeville, Free Thoughts on Religion, The Church and National Happiness, ed. Irwin Primer (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2001), 134. I am grateful to Irwin Primer for this reference. 9. John Dewey, Human Nature and Conduct (1922) in John Dewey: The Middle Works, 1899–1924, ed.
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