Discourse/Counter-Discourse
The Theory and Practice of Symbolic Resistance in Nineteenth-Century France
Published on 29. April 1985
Book
Hardback
368 pages
978-0-8014-1750-4 (ISBN)
Description
Discourse/Counter-Discourse is situated on the border between cultural history and literary criticism: combining the insights of Marxism and semiotics, it attempts to delineate the cultural function of texts. Focusing on France during a period of remarkable cultural, social, and political transformation, Richard Terdiman examines both the dominant bourgeois discourse-novels, newspapers, and other mass forms of expression-and the effort of intellectuals to devise counter-discourses to combat it.
Reviews / Votes
An excellent example of a kind of literary history that is possible under the aegis of recent theories of the sign when linked with the social analyses of thinkers such as Foucault, Gramsci, and Bourdieu.... The result is a coherent theory of texts and social contexts which diminishes the role of neither and an impressive application that demonstrates a complex interanimation between the discourses of the nineteenth-century French mass media and the more 'literary' works of Balzac, Flaubert, Daumier, Baudelaire, Mallarme, and Marx.(Virginia Quarterly Review)
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ithaca
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paper over boards
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
907 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8014-1750-4 (9780801417504)
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Richard Terdiman
Discourse/Counter-Discourse
The Theory and Practice of Symbolic Resistance in Nineteenth-Century France
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Cornell University Press
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Person
Richard Terdiman is Associate Professor of French Literature at the University of California, San Diego.