Subject Matters. - GIFFORD, PAUL|JOHNNIE GRATTON [EDS.].
KORTE INHOUD
What can we currently make of 'the subject'? Under the sway of structuralism and poststructuralism, critical thinking took a distinctly negative turn, effectively disqualifying any form of subjectivity as a reference point in discussions of textual or literary meaning. Since the mid-1970s, however, throughout the human sciences, human agency has been restored as both a methodological principle and an ethical value: a phenomenon broadly designated as 'the return of the subject'. Yet the returning subject bears the traces of its problematization... The present collection of essays explores the ways in which the subject now 'matters', both in principle and in the variety of critical approaches in authorizes. Essays, which are both literary and theoretical in character, cover authors, texts and issues in French literature from Descartes to the present. A wide range of types of writing is examined, from established forms such as the novel to relatively marginal and generically unsystematized discursive practices s...
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2000Uitgever: Rodopi Bv Editions243 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 9042006307ISBN-13: 9789042006300Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Original publishers sewn paperback, pictorial frontcover, large 8vo: [viij], 244pp., 14 contributions, footnotes/bibliographical notes, general bibliography, index. Texts in English. As new. Volume 184: Faux Titre. Études de langue et littérature françaises publiées. Amsterdam-Atlanta, Rodopi. 2000 [Auteur: GIFFORD, PAUL/JOHNNIE GRATTON [EDS.].] [Jaar: 2000] [Titel: Subject Matters.]
