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Cultural Criticism, Literary Theory, Poststructuralism (Hardcover, New)
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Cultural Criticism, Literary Theory, Poststructuralism (Hardcover, New)
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Leitch argues for the use of poststructural theory in cultural
criticism. He maintains that deconstruction remains crucial for a
truly critical approach to cultural studies. Literary critics now
frequently use sociological, historical, political, and
institutional methods of inquiry. This 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 interpretation and
assessment; institutional theory and analysis; and Birmingham's
Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies and poststructuralism. He
draws on the work of Barthes, Deleuze, de Man, Derrida, Foucault,
Jameson, Kristeva, Lentricchia, Lyotard, Said, and Scholes - whose
work he does not hesitate to criticize.
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