LEADER 03892nam 2200817 450 001 9910453087503321 005 20220120173211.0 010 $a0-691-11872-8 010 $a1-4008-4959-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400849598 035 $a(CKB)2550000001136149 035 $a(EBL)1441387 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001482870 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12613782 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001482870 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11422546 035 $a(PQKB)11479589 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001168061 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11759204 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001168061 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11132739 035 $a(PQKB)11673416 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1441387 035 $a(OCoLC)861692746 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse37200 035 $a(DE-B1597)447894 035 $a(OCoLC)922666066 035 $a(OCoLC)999361800 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400849598 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1441387 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10786929 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL535852 035 $a(OCoLC)862376735 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001136149 100 $a20131107d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe shape of the signifier $e1967 to the end of history /$fWalter Benn Michaels 205 $aCourse Book 210 1$aPrinceton, New Jersey ;$aOxfordshire, England :$cPrinceton University Press,$d2004. 210 4$dİ2004 215 $a1 online resource (232 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-12618-6 311 $a1-306-04601-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction. The Blank Page --$tOne. Posthistoricism --$tTwo. Prehistoricism --$tThree. Historicism --$tCoda. Empires of the Senseless --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aThe 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 different things) with identitarian difference (we speak different languages, we have different bodies and different histories) organizes the thinking of writers from Richard Rorty to Octavia Butler to Samuel Huntington to Kathy Acker. He then examines how this shift produces the narrative logic of texts ranging from Toni Morrison's Beloved to Michael Hardt and Toni Negri's Empire. As with everything Michaels writes, The Shape of the Signifier is sure to leave controversy and debate in its wake. 606 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$y21st century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSignification (Logic) in literature 606 $aLiterary form 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSignification (Logic) in literature. 615 0$aLiterary form. 676 $a801/.95/0904 700 $aMichaels$b Walter Benn$01006096 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453087503321 996 $aThe shape of the signifier$92314754 997 $aUNINA