Preamble: Stand Roughly There—Ordinary Language Criticism and American Low Modernism

“Preamble”: Seeking ways to discriminate specific texts, contexts, and intellectual technologies and arts, even a programmatic book like the present one might realize some of the things that we readers and writers characteristically do in thinking, reasoning, and arguing, enabling us, in turn, to acknowledge “the legitimacy and impact of another’s use of radically contrasting principles”—however foreign at first such principles may appear to us, or remain.