Critical PracticeRoutledge, 16 դեկ, 2003 թ. - 176 էջ What is poststructuralist theory, and what difference does it make to literary criticism? Where do we find the meaning of the text: in the author's head? in the reader's? Or do we, instead, make meaning in the practice of reading itself? If so, what part do our own values play in the process of interpretation? And what is the role of the text? Catherine Belsey considers these and other questions concerning the relations between human beings and language, readers and texts, writing and cultural politics. Assuming no prior knowledge of poststructuralism, Critical Practice guides the reader confidently through the maze of contemporary theory. It simply and lucidly explains the views of key figures such as Louis Althusser, Roland Barthes, Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida, and shows their theories at work in readings of familiar literary texts. Critical Practice argues that theory matters, because it makes a difference to what we do when we read, opening up new possibilities for literary and cultural analysis. Poststructuralism, in conjunction with psychoanalysis and deconstruction, makes radical change to the way we read both a priority and a possibility. With a new chapter, updated guidance on further reading and revisions throughout, this second edition of Critical Practice is the ideal guide to the present and future of literary studies. |
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... individual insights, oftheirauthors. Commonsensealso offers this wayof approachingliterature not asaselfconscious anddeliberate practice, amethod based on a reasoned theoretical position, but asthe 'obvious' mode of reading, the ...
... individual mind or inner beingisthesource of meaning and truth. In this context, the notion ofatext which tells a (or the) truth, as perceived byan individual subject(theauthor), whose insights are thesource of thetext's single and ...
... individuals transmit messages to eachotherabout an independently constituted world of things.Onthe contrary, it is language which offersthe possibilityof constructing a worldof distinct individuals and things,and of differentiating ...
... individuals ('Conservativeparty ideology', for instance), but thevery condition of our experienceofthe world, unconscious precisely in thatitis unquestioned, takenforgranted. Ideology, in Althusser's useof the term, works in conjunction ...
... individual, who expresses this perception in a textwhich enables other individuals to recognizeits truth. E. X. P. RESSIVE. REAL. I. SM. Expressive realism belongs roughly to the last two centuries. It coincides, therefore, with the period ...