A Critical and Cultural Theory Reader
Antony Easthope(Author)
Allen & Unwin (Publisher)
Published on 18. September 1992
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-86373-308-3 (ISBN)
Description
The "death of literature" and the rise of post-structuralist theory has breached the traditional opposition between the literary canon and popular culture, both in principle and in academic practice. This reader contains essays and extracts for the study of high and popular culture, together with writing by Saussure, Barthes, Lacan, Kristeva, Foucault, Derrida and Cixous. For easy reference, the reader is divided into sections including: semiology, ideology, subjectivity, difference, gender and postmodernism. It concludes with a section of "cultural documents" with extracts from Leavis, Adorno, Williams and Tzara. With the concerns of students in mind, each section is introduced and each piece of writing summarized in the notes.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Sydney
Australia
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Illustrations
notes, summaries, references, index
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 140 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-86373-308-3 (9781863733083)
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Content
Part 1 Semiology: introduction; Saussure, from "Course in General Linguistics"; Barthes, from "Mythologies"; Macherey, from "A theory of literary production"; Barthes, from S/Z; MacCabe, from "Realism and Cinema". Part 2 Ideology: introduction; Marx, from "Preface to the Critique"; Marx and Engels, from "The German Ideology"; Althusser, from "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatusses"; Said, from "Orientalism". Part 3 Subjectivity: introduction; Lacan, from "The Mirror Stage" from "Ecrits"; Kristeva, "The System and the Speaking Subject"; Foucault, "Panopticism" from "Discipline and Punish the History of Sexuality"; Barthes, from "The Pleasure of the Text". Part 4 Difference: introduction; Derrida, "Differance". Part 5 Gender: introduction; Freud, "The Universal Tendency Towards Debasement in Love"; Cixous, from "Sorties"; Mulvey, from "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"; Spivak, From "Displacement and the Discourse of Woman". Part 6 Postmodernism: introduction; Lyotard, from "The Postmodern Condition"; Jameson, from "Postmodernism"; Baudrillard, from "Simulations". Part 7 Documents in cultural studies: introduction; Leavis, from "Minority Culture and Mass Civilisation"; Adorno, "On Popular Music"; Williams, from "Culture and Society"; Williams, "Popular" from "Keywords"; Tzara, from "Memoirs of Dadaism".