Reading Theory
An Introduction to Lacan, Derrida and Kristeva
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 6. May 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-0-631-18289-4 (ISBN)
Description
'Deconstruction', 'psychoanalysis', and 'semiotics' have become part of the vocabulary of contempoorary culture. Reading Theory introduces the principal texts by Derrida, Lacan and Kristeva that are behind these terms and that provide their contexts. This book concentrates its attention on making accessible what these three theorists have written, rather than offering a synthetic construction of the fashionable terminology of theory.
Works carefully through key texts by the leading contemporary theorists
Clear, accessible and introductory
Challenges recent attacks on theory and on Derrida.
Works carefully through key texts by the leading contemporary theorists
Clear, accessible and introductory
Challenges recent attacks on theory and on Derrida.
Reviews / Votes
"[Shows] perception and originality." Julia Kristeva "By intensive reading clarified by historical and intertexual contexts of each of the authors, he achieves a series of brilliant explications".... I have never read a more lucid explanation of these ideas". James R. Bennett, University of ArkansasMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
399 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-631-18289-4 (9780631182894)
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Person
Michael Payne is John P. Crozer Professor and Heaad of English at Bucknell University, Pennsylvania. He is the author of Irony in Shakespeare's Roman Plays and the editor of several volumes of criticism and theory, including the forthcoming Blackwell Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory.
Content
List of Plates. Preface.
Acknowledgements.
List of Abbreviations.
1. Theoretical Beginnings: Introductions to Lacan, Derrida and Kristeva.
2. Ecrits: A Selection.
3. Of Grammatology.
4. Revolution in Poetic Language.
5. Reading Paintings.
Appendix I: Lacan's Use of Freud's German Terms.
Appendix II: Derrida's Abbreviated Citations.
Appendix III: Some Kristevan Terms.
Index.
Acknowledgements.
List of Abbreviations.
1. Theoretical Beginnings: Introductions to Lacan, Derrida and Kristeva.
2. Ecrits: A Selection.
3. Of Grammatology.
4. Revolution in Poetic Language.
5. Reading Paintings.
Appendix I: Lacan's Use of Freud's German Terms.
Appendix II: Derrida's Abbreviated Citations.
Appendix III: Some Kristevan Terms.
Index.