Theoretical Inquiry: Language, Linguistics, and Literature.(Book review)

From: The Modern Language Review | Date: April 1, 2006| Author: Tambling, Jeremy | Copyright information

Theoretical Inquiry: Language, Linguistics, and Literature. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 2004. xxii+262 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-300-10166-x.

Austin Quigley's writing stresses order and balance, as in this sentence: 'The recurring appeal of the pluralist perspective is that it recognizes and seeks to address the dangers to critical practice of unreflectivemonism while seeking also to avoid the alternative danger of uncontrolled relativism but the ...

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