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The Shape of the Signifier : 1967 to the End of History /

The Shape of the Signifier is a critique of recent theory--primarily literary but also cultural and political. Bringing together previously unconnected strands of Michaels's thought--from ""Against Theory"" to Our America--it anatomizes what's fundamentally at stake whe...

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Autor principal: Michaels, Walter Benn (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University, [2004]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The Shape of the Signifier is a critique of recent theory--primarily literary but also cultural and political. Bringing together previously unconnected strands of Michaels's thought--from ""Against Theory"" to Our America--it anatomizes what's fundamentally at stake when we think of literature in terms of the experience of the reader rather than the intention of the author, and when we substitute the question of who people are for the question of what they believe. With signature virtuosity, Michaels shows how the replacement of ideological difference (we believe diff
Descripción Física:1 online resource (232 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781400849598