Cultural criticism, literary theory, poststructuralism / Vincent B. Leitch.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Leitch, Vincent B., 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Criticism--History--20th century.
• Criticism.
• History.
• Structuralism (Literary analysis).

Physical Description:

xvii, 186 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [1992]

Summary:

• 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-180) and index.

ISBN:

0231079702

OCLC:

26055115