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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... postSaussurean theory gave usaclear alternative. But the new theories arenowmuch more widespread, much morerespectable, than theywere, and I have thereforeisolated theseearlier challengesin asecond chapter, which readers whofeel ...
... post Saussurean', to emphasize its line of descentfrom the radical elementsinthelinguistic theoryof Ferdinand de Saussure ... PostSaussurean work on language has challenged the whole conceptofrealism; Roland Barthes has specifically ...
... PostSaussurean theory, therefore, starts from an analysis of language, proposing thatlanguage isnot transparent,notmerely themedium inwhich autonomous individuals transmit messages to eachotherabout an independently constituted world of ...
... post Saussurean writers like LouisAlthusser, Roland Barthes, JacquesDerrida andJacques Lacan, thoughdifferent fromeach other in important ways,share this property of difficulty,and not simply from a perverse desire to be obscure. To ...
... postSaussurean terminology where itseems to me necessary and,in addition, I shall attempt to show postSaussurean theory in action, rather thanmerely to encapsulateinmore accessible form areducedversion of the theoretical positions ...