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by Professor Roland Barthes

These essays include the influential "The Death of the Author."

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Structuralism & Poststructuralism for Beginners

Structuralism & Poststructuralism for Beginners more books like this

by Donald D Palmer (Illustrator)

From the author of "Looking at Philosophy" and "Does the Center Hold?" comes an illustrated tour through the landscape of 20th-century thought--for readers who don't have time to study the topic in depth. Previously annotated in December 1995 "Advance" as "Structuralism for Beginners".

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Validity in interpretation.

Validity in interpretation. more books like this

by Eric Donald Hirsch

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Structuralism & semiotics

Structuralism & semiotics more books like this

by Terence Hawkes

We live in a world of signs, and of signs about signs. A growing awareness of this situation in the last decades of the twentieth century brought a monumental change in perspecive on the very nature of reality. It forced us to recognise the possibility that reality inheres not in things themselves, but in the relationships we perceive between ...

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Structuralist Poetics

Structuralist Poetics more books like this

by Jonathan Culler

A work of technical skill as well as outstanding literary merit, Structuralist Poetics was awarded the 1975 James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association. It was during the writing of this book that Culler developed his now famous and remarkably complex theory of poetics and narrative, and while never a populariser he nonetheless ...

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Script Into Performance: A Structuralist Approach

Script Into Performance: A Structuralist Approach more books like this

by Richard Hornby

This practical guide to script analysis shows how to translate the classics into masterful performances.

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Structuralism in Literature: An Introduction

Structuralism in Literature: An Introduction more books like this

by Robert E Scholes

A distinguished literary critic explores the linguistic background of structuralism, its historical connections to romanticism and Russian formalism, and the theory and practice of the leading contemporary structuralist literary critics. "Beautifully lucid, and at the same time intelligently critical...Perhaps the most valuable general work [on ...

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From the New Criticism to

From the New Criticism to more books like this

by Art Berman

Aims to say interesting things, both about the hybrid character of Anglo-American criticism and about the French theory that it imports and then proceeds to manhandle.

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In Defence of Realism

In Defence of Realism more books like this

by Professor Raymond Tallis

'A bracing counterblast to the post-modernizing gibberish of contemporary literary theory' - "The Spectator". 'Tallis drills into numerous assertions that have become immovable escarpments in current literary discourse until they collapse of their weight. His method ...consists mainly of using the critics' own words to destroy them' - "Studies in ...

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Theory as Resistance: Politics and Culture After (Post)structuralism

Theory as Resistance: Politics and Culture After (Post)structuralism more books like this

by Mas'ud Zavarzadeh, Donald Morton

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Structuralist poetics : structuralism, linguistics and the study of literature more books like this

by Jonathan D. Culler

A work of technical skill as well as literary merit, "Structuralist Poetics" was awarded the 1975 James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association. It was during the writing of this book that Culler developed his now famous and complex theory of poetics and narrative, which he makes clear within these pages. The book itself combines a ...

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Logics of Disintegration: Post-Structuralist Thought and the Claims of Critical Theory more books like this

by Peter Dews

A work, which presents an attack on the thoughts of Derrida, Foucault and Lacan.

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Cultural Criticism, Literary Theory, Poststructuralism more books like this

by Professor Vincent B Leitch

Leitch argues for the use of poststructural theory in cultural criticism. He maintains that deconstruction remains crucial for a truly critical approach to cultural studies. Literary critics now frequently use sociological, historical, political, and institutional methods of inquiry. This turn toward "dis-course" and away from "literature" has led ...

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Beyond Poststructuralism: The Speculations of Theory and the Experience of Reading more books like this

by Wendell V Harris (Editor)

Essays that critique the excesses of poststructuralist theory and suggest ways in which the study of literature can be improved. The essays in Part I of Beyond Poststructuralism seek to demonstrate fallacies of structuralist and poststructuralist thought that remain potent even thought the theoretical structures that led to their enunciation have ...

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The Word and Verbal Art: Selected Essays by Jan Mukarovsky more books like this

by Jan Mukarovsky

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Deleuze and Guattari more books like this

by Ronald Bogue

The philosopher Giles Deleuze and the psychoanalyst and political activist Felix Guattari have been recognised as among the most important intellectual figures of their generation. This is the first book-length study of their works in English, one that provides an overview of their thought and of its bearing on the central issues of contemporary ...

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Cultural History and Postmodernity: Disciplinary Readings and Challenges more books like this

by Professor Mark Poster

-- Christopher Kent, Canadian Journal of History

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The responsibility of forms more books like this

by Roland Barthes

These late essays of Roland Barthes are concerned with the visible and the audible, and here the preoccupations are particularly intense and rewarding in part because he was of two minds about the very possibility of attaching to art and to music a written text, a criticism.

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Analysis of the poetic text more books like this

by IU. M. Lotman

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Jakobsonian Poetics - CL more books like this

by Krystyna Pomorska, Krystyna Pomorska

Krystyna Pomorska (1928-1986), a noted specialist of Slavic literature and literary theory, is best known for her pioneering work in applying Roman Jakobson's theories of poetics to prose narratives. This collection draws together and makes accessible her writings over two decades (among them articles appearing in English for the first time), and ...

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Siting Translation more books like this

by Tejaswini Niranjana

The act of translation, the author maintains, is a political action. She draws on Benjamin, Derrida and de Man to show that translation has long been a site for perpetuating the unequal power relations among peoples, races and languages. The traditional view of translation underwritten by Western philosophy helped colonialism to construct the ...

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Critical Encounters: Reference and Responsibility in Deconstructive Writing more books like this

by Cathy Caruth (Editor), Deborah Esch (Editor)

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The Subjectivity Effect in Western Literary Tradition: Essays Toward the Release of Shakespeare's Will more books like this

by Joel Fineman

Combining formidable learning with theoretical sophistication that is at once philosophical, linguistic, and psychoanalytical, Fineman draws from the most familiar work verbal details that lead to startling new interpretations, challenging Freud or making original applications of Lacan.

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Signs of Literature: Language, Ide more books like this

by Kenneth James Hughes

The history of language as a made thing -- a linguistic and structuralist primer.

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A Critical and Cultural Theory Reader more books like this

by Kate Easthope (Editor), Kate McGowan (Editor), Anthony Easthope (Editor)

The 'death of literature' and the rise of post-structuralist theory has breached the traditional opposition between the literary canon and popular culture, both in principle and in academic practice. When first published in 1992, A Critical and Cultural Theory Reader served the growing need for a collection of essays and extracts for the study of ...

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