| Description |
xi, 296 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Literary theory in the eighties: Catherine Belsey's Critical Practice -- 2. Two paradigms of literary theory -- 3. Literary theory and the problems of ethics -- 4. Althusserian Marxism: text production theory -- 5. Derridean poststructuralism: post-Saussurean constructivism -- 6. Foucaultian poststructuralism: discourse power theory -- 7. The powers and limits of literary theory -- Notes -- Bibliography |
| Summary |
These deficiencies are ascribed principally to three aspects of modern theoretical schools: the commitment to a non-referential view of language, the rejection of substantive accounts of the individual and a repudiation of moral and aesthetic evaluation. The 'alternative account' offered by Professors Freadman and Miller incorporates the values renounced by contemporary literary theory and places a central emphasis on ethical discourse |
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Re-thinking theory offers a bold approach to literary studies. The book itself is explicitly theoretical and yet makes a searching critique of some of the modes, concepts and movements which compromise modern literary theory. Discussing key concepts such as ideology, signification and discourse, and analysing schools including that of F. R. Leavis, Althusserian Marxism, Derridean and Foucauldian poststructuralism and New Historicism, the authors argue that there are major deficiences in the conceptual foundations and the literary and political implications of contemporary literary theory |
| Analysis |
Literature Criticism |
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Literature Criticism |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-290) and index |
| Notes |
Donation |
| Subject |
Criticism.
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Literature, Modern -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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| Author |
Miller, Seumas.
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| LC no. |
91024050 |
| ISBN |
0521380359 (hardback) |
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