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Discourse/Counter-Discourse: The Theory and Practice of Symbolic Resistance in Nineteenth-Century France - Softcover

Terdiman, Richard

 
9780801496905: Discourse/Counter-Discourse: The Theory and Practice of Symbolic Resistance in Nineteenth-Century France

Synopsis

Discourse/Counter-Discourse is situated on the border between cultural history and literary criticism: combining the insights of Marxism and semiotics, it attempts to delineate the cultural function of texts. Focusing on France during a period of remarkable cultural, social, and political transformation, Richard Terdiman examines both the dominant bourgeois discourse―novels, newspapers, and other mass forms of expression―and the effort of intellectuals to devise counter-discourses to combat it.

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About the Author

Richard Terdiman is Associate Professor of French Literature at the University of California, San Diego.

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