Jacques Lacan's seminar on ''The Purloined Letter'' at once challenged literary theorists and revealed a radically new conception of psychoanalysis. His far-reaching claims about language and truth provoked a vigorous critique by Jacques Derrida, whose essay in turn has spawned further responses from Barbara Johnson, Jane Gallop, Irene Harvey, ......
The Current in Criticism is meant to provide the reader witha wide spectrum of current thinking, a sampling of some of the arguments,attitudes, and perspectives, which participate in the swirl of intensespeculative energy that is so characteristic of contemporary theory. Theeditors describe this collection of 14 essays as "a tentative assessment ......
Literary Theories in Praxis analyzes the ways in which critical theories are transformed into literary criticism and methodology. To demonstrate the application of this analysis, critical writings of Roland Barthes, Harold Bloom, Cleanth Brooks, Jacques Derrida, Northrop Frye, Norman Holland, Barbara Johnson, Jacques Lacan, Adrienne Rich, and ......
''An unprecedented encounter between feminist criticism, reading-research and reader-response criticism...I found 'Gender and Reading' a valuable book to read as a feminist critic. Valuable because it asserts our rights, as women, to read; to read as women. Valuable because it begins a dialogue among so many varieties of criticism and ......
''Blonsky has grouped numerous original and newly translated works by those who have been highly visible forces in semiotic circles . . . His book functions as a unified voice proclaiming the power of semiotics to reveal the hidden practices and secrets of modern society.''--Journal of Communication.Contributors include Roland Barthes, Michel de ......
''When it is done well, deconstructive criticism can be a pleasure to read, as it is in the case of Barbara Johnson. Her discussions of the reading process . . . are patient, ingenious, and persuasive.''--Robert Scholes, Yale Review
Studies in the History and Theory of Literary Criticism
In Structure and Society in Literary History Robert Weimann, one of Germany's leading literary theoreticians, raises important questions about the social function of literature and sketches the outlines of a new historical criticism.Weinmann's Marxist analysis relates the history of writing and reading to the history of social and economic ......
Originally published in 1766, the Laocoon has been called the first extended attempt in modern times to define the distinctive spheres of art and poetry.
