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Record Nr.

UNINA9910966352103321

Autore

Davis Colin <1960->

Titolo

After poststructuralism : reading, stories and theory / / Colin Davis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, c2004

ISBN

0-8101-1097-0

1-134-37481-X

1-134-37482-8

1-280-07442-6

0-203-56922-9

0-415-31608-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

210 p

Disciplina

801/.95/09045

Soggetti

Structuralism (Literary analysis)

Structuralism

Poststructuralism

Criticism - History - 20th century

Literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-206) and index.

Nota di contenuto

chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Impostures of French theory -- chapter 2 Enlightenment/poststructuralism -- chapter 3 After knowledge -- Lyotard and the postmodern condition -- chapter 4 After ethics -- Levinas without stories -- chapter 5 After hope -- Althusser on reading and self-reading -- chapter 6 After identity -- Kristeva’s life stories -- chapter 7 Spectres of theory.

Sommario/riassunto

After Poststructuralism: Interdisciplinary and Literary Theory challenges the premises of and suggests new alternatives to the more extreme approaches in current literary theory. The essays collected here examine the trend of "theorizing" in interdisciplinary studies from the perspective of more rigorous research methodologies, with the aim of establishing the validity of interdisciplinary literary studies and broadening the field of inquiry. The collection is divided into three groups. The first examines the question of what "interdisciplinarity" has



meant in literary studies in the last twenty years, the reasons for its ascension as a trend, and the inherent theoretical flaws in certain poststructuralist positions. The second explores the relationship of theory and practice, while the third group looks ahead to the rich possibilities for thinking and working in practical new directions.