Following the Textual Revolution: The Standardization of Radical Critical Theories of the 1960s

by Tymon Adamczewski

Overview

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."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476626420
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	10/24/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	200
File size:	3 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Tymon Adamczewski is an assistant professor in the English Department of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland. His academic interests cover literature, critical theory and cultural studies. He lives in Toruń.
Tymon Adamczewski is an assistant professor in the English Department of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland. His academic interests cover literature, critical theory and cultural studies. He lives in Torun.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction
One. 33⅓ RPM or Literary Studies and the Sixties
Two. Text and Textuality
Three. Acquiring the Text
Four. After the Text
Conclusion
Chapter Notes
References
Index

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