Cultural Criticism, Literary Theory, Poststructuralism
by Vincent B. Leitch
2020-11-25 09:13:24
Cultural Criticism, Literary Theory, Poststructuralism
by Vincent B. Leitch
2020-11-25 09:13:24
The turn toward dis-course and away from literature has led to a resurgence of cultural criticism, a mode of analysis revitalized and reformed by the arrival of theory. Leitch illustrates the weak points of influential predecessors, showing how posts...
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The turn toward dis-course and away from literature has led to a resurgence of cultural criticism, a mode of analysis revitalized and reformed by the arrival of theory. Leitch illustrates the weak points of influential predecessors, showing how poststructuralism offers useful advances over reigning modes of critical inquiry. Leitch develops positions on key topics: social formations and cultural critique; authorship and intention; poetic discourse and the social text; literary genre and cultural convention; minority literatures and general poetics; textual theory and analysis; and poststructuralism. He draws on the work of Barthes, Deleuze, de Man, Derrida, Foucault, Jameson, Kristeva, Lentricchia, Lyotard, Said, and Scholes.
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