Text, culture, rhetoric: some futures for English

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    Author
    FROW, JOHN
    Date
    2001
    Source Title
    Critical Quarterly
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    Frow, John
    Affiliation
    Arts: Department of English with Cultural Studies
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    Frow, J. (2001). Text, culture, rhetoric: some futures for English. Critical Quarterly, 43(1), 5-18.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/33610
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    Abstract
    This is the text of an inaugural lecture given at the University of Edinburgh on 11 May 2000. In his book on character analysis Wilhelm Reich describes character as a kind of armour, a rigid suit that one bolts on and that its wearer then comes to resemble. It’s a metaphor that Jacques Lacan picks up in a phrase about the ‘blazons of phobia’, that ‘talking arms of character’, and it’s one that seems an apt description of these priestly robes that I’m wearing this afternoon. I can think of them only as a sign of office with which I at once pay my respects to the distinguished line of predecessors in this chair, and defend myself by hiding behind the impersonality of the ‘armorial blazoning’ of position.

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