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

Adamczewski, Tymon

 
9781476665788: Following the Textual Revolution: The Standardization of Radical Critical Theories of the 1960s
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1476665788 ISBN 13: 9781476665788
Publisher: McFarland, 2016

Synopsis

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."

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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 Torun.

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Publisher
McFarland
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1476665788
ISBN 13 
9781476665788
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
200