
Critical and Cultural Theory Reader
Open University Press
Published on 16. June 1992
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-335-09945-0 (ISBN)
Description
Covering semiology, ideology, subjectivity, difference, gender and postmodernism, this reader contains essential writing by Saussure, Barthes, Lacan, Kristeva, Foucault, Derrida, and Cixous, as well as material for the study of popular culture.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Milton Keynes
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
notes, references, index
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-335-09945-0 (9780335099450)
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Content
Part 1 Semiology: Ferdinand de Saussure, from "Course in General Linguistics"; Roland Barthes, from "Mythologies"; Pierre Macherey, from "A Theory of Literary Production"; Roland Barthes, from "S/Z"; Colin McCabe, from "Realism and the Cinema". Part 2 Ideology: Karl Marx, from "Preface to the Critique"; Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, from "The German Ideology"; Louis Althusser, from "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses"; Edward Said, from "Orientalism". Part 3 Subjectivity: Jacques Lacan, "The Mirror Stage" from "Ecrits"; Julia Kristeva, from "The System and the Speaking Subject"; "Michael Foucault, from "Discipline and Punish"; Michel Foucault, from "The History of Sexuality"; Roland Barthes, from "The Pleasure of the Text". Part 4 Difference: Jacques Derrida, from "Differance". Part 5 Gender: "On the Universal Tendency Towards Debasement in Love", Sigmund Freud; Helene Cixous, from "Sorties"; Laura Mulvey, from "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"; Gayatri Spivak, from "Displacement and the Discourse of Woman". Part 6 Postmodernism: Jean-Francois Lyotard, from "The Postmodern Condition"; Fredric Jameson, from "Posmodernism"; Jean Baudrillard, from "Simulations". Part 7 Documents in Cultural Theory: F.R. Leavis, from "Mass Civilization and Minority Culture"; Theodore Adorno, from "On Popular Music"; Raymond Williams, from "Culture and Society"; Raymond Williams, "Popular" from "Keywords"; Tristan Tzara, from "Memoirs of Dadaism".