Art and Argument

Bruce E. Fleming is Professor, Department of English, United States Naval Academy.

• Chapter 1 The Ineffability of LanguageChapter 2 Worlds and the WorldChapter 3 Sex and SilenceChapter 4 The Boundary Between Words and SilenceChapter 5 What Art Is, and What It Isn'tChapter 6 True, False, or GrayChapter 7 How to Do Things With LiteratureChapter 8 EndnotesChapter 9 BibliographyChapter 10 About the AuthorChapter 11 Index

The book attempts to analyze how language works and how it fails and how we might manage to deal with it, provided we see it as succeeding and failing in communication. In generally straightforward language, and with examples from ordinary acts of communication, Fleming attempts to find out what is at the root of the multidimensionality of communication. We do need more such readable books in this subject.