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The Aims of Representation : Subject/Text/History / Murray Krieger.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Irvine Studies in the Humanities
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1987]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- A collection of essays discussing theories on literature and textuality. Looks at subject as the controlling author of literary work, the work as produced by and absorbed within a larger textuality, and that textuality is created by power-driven historical forces.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: The Literary, The Textual, The Social / Krieger, Murray
- 1. Judiciousness in Dispute, or Kant after Marx / Lyotard, Jean-François
- 2. Narrative, Heterogeneity, and the Question of the Political: Bakhtin and Lyotard
- 3. Foucault, Post-Structuralism, and the Mode of Information
- 4. Surplus Economies: Deconstruction, Ideology and the Humanities
- 5. Action, Subjectivity, and the Constitution of Meaning / Giddens, Anthony
- 6. History, Appropriation, and the Uses of Representation in Modern Narrative / Weimann, Robert
- 7. Representation: A Performative Act / Iser, Wolfgang
- Essays after the Essays
- 8. Criticism Today / LaCapra, Dominick
- 9. Capitalist Culture and the Circulatory System / Greenblatt, Stephen
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9780231877602
- 0231877609
- OCLC:
- 1100450820
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