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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136072303321

Autore

Adamczewski Tymon

Titolo

Following the textual revolution : the standardization of radical critical theories of the 1960s / / Tymon Adamczewski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jefferson, North Carolina : , : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-4766-2642-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 pages)

Disciplina

801.950904

Soggetti

Criticism - History - 20th century

Literature, Modern - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- One. 33 1/3 RPM or literary studies and the Sixties -- Two. Text and textuality -- Three. Acquiring the text -- Four. After the text -- Conclusion -- Chapter notes -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"Analysis of literature and culture abounds in modern scholarship, customarily written in the familiar language of literary theory. Though the terminology today seems (more or less) straightforward, this was not always the case. The propositions for a new and active understanding of 'text,' put forward in the 1960s by theorists like Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida, profoundly influenced contemporary critical thought and were unnerving to many. This book examines how a divergent school of literary and cultural studies created French Theory, appropriated its ideas about text and texuality and altered the landscape of debate in mainstream academic discourse. The author traces the standardization of a once 'rebellious' poststructuralism and presents contemporary critical thinking that questions the assumptions of 'Theory'"--