Heuretics: The Logic of Invention / Edition 1

by Gregory L. Ulmer

Overview

In Heuretics—he defines the word as the "branch of logic that treats the art of discovery or invention"—Ulmer sets forth new methods appropriate for conducting cultural studies research in an age of electronic hypermedia. Like his widely acclaimed Applied Grammatology and Teletheory, Ulmer's newest volume offers applications of theory of interest not only to scholars but also to those working at the intersection of text and technology. Part One presents a reading of the history of method in the context of grammatology, a reading based on more than two decades' experience in teaching the classics of method from Platos Phaedrus through Descartes's Discourse on Method to modernist vanguard manifestos. Part two applies the poetics of method to the invention of rhetoric for a new computer literacy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801847189
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date:	03/01/1994
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Gregory L. Ulmer is professor of English at the University of Florida, Gainesville. He is the author of Applied Grammatology.

What People are Saying About This

"A book like Ulmer's, that aims to put theory to use to create a generative apparatus for the writer's invention, is a breath of fresh air for me. I don't know of anybody who has tried to make of post-structuralist theory a heuristic in anything like the comprehensive way that Professor Ulmer does in Heuretics."

Eugene K. Garber

A book like Ulmer's, that aims to put theory to use to create a generative apparatus for the writer's invention, is a breath of fresh air for me. I don't know of anybody who has tried to make of post-structuralist theory a heuristic in anything like the comprehensive way that Professor Ulmer does in Heuretics.

From the Publisher

A book like Ulmer's, that aims to put theory to use to create a generative apparatus for the writer's invention, is a breath of fresh air for me. I don't know of anybody who has tried to make of post-structuralist theory a heuristic in anything like the comprehensive way that Professor Ulmer does in Heuretics.
—Eugene K. Garber, State University of New York at Albany

Editorial Reviews

Here is offered a scheme for creating multileveled texts that are both creative and critical and infinitely generative, and that invite readers to connect electronic media to the unconscious. Most readers will not fail to appreciate the wit of the exposition and the clarity of the creative method . . . [A] stunning performance.
—Tom Conley, Philosophy and Literature

From the Publisher

Here is offered a scheme for creating multileveled texts that are both creative and critical and infinitely generative, and that invite readers to connect electronic media to the unconscious. Most readers will not fail to appreciate the wit of the exposition and the clarity of the creative method... [A] stunning performance.

— Tom Conley

Philosophy and Literature

"Here is offered a scheme for creating multileveled texts that are both creative and critical and infinitely generative, and that invite readers to connect electronic media to the unconscious. Most readers will not fail to appreciate the wit of the exposition and the clarity of the creative method... [A] stunning performance."

Philosophy and Literature - Tom Conley