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Cultural Criticism, Literary Theory, Poststructuralism

By Vincent B. Leitch

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
1993
ISBN
0231079702, 9780231079709
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7822944 bytes)
Pages
204\216
Topic
Other Social Sciences\\Cultural
Time added
2021-07-03 20:38:06
Critical ThinkingCultural StudiesLiterary CriticismLiterary Theory

Description

The turn toward "dis-course" and away from "literature" has led to a resurgence of cultural criticism, a mode of analysis revitalized and reformed by the arrival of "theory." Leitch illustrates the weak points of influential predecessors, showing how poststructuralism offers useful advances over reigning modes of critical inquiry. Leitch develops positions on key topics: social formations and cultural critique; authorship and intention; "poetic" discourse and the social text; literary genre and cultural convention; minority literatures and "general poetics"; textual theory and analysis; and poststructuralism. He draws on the work of Barthes, Deleuze, de Man, Derrida, Foucault, Jameson, Kristeva, Lentricchia, Lyotard, Said, and Scholes.

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