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

Terdiman, Richard

ISBN 10: 080149690X / ISBN 13: 9780801496905

Published by Cornell University Press, 1989

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Discourse/Counter-Discourse: The Theory and Practice of Symbolic Resistance in Nineteenth-Century France
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080149690X
• ISBN 13: 9780801496905
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good

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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.

About the Author

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