Language, Discourse, Society Reader

Name: Language, Discourse, Society Reader
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ISBN: 9780333763711

ISBN-10: 0333763718

ISBN-13: 9780333763711

Edition: 2004

Authors: Stephen Heath, Colin MacCabe, Denise Riley, Denise Riley

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This 25th anniversary reader brings together a group of thinkers from both sides of the Atlantic with an introductory overview from the editors which considers the development of theory and scholarship since 1980.

Book details

List price: $130.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Publication date: 8/13/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 422
Size: 5.55" wide x 3.35" long x 0.37" tall
Weight: 1.496

Stephen Heath is Professor of English and French Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge.



Notes on Contributors


Introduction



James Joyce and the Revolution of the Word



On Law and Ideology



Language, Semiotics and Ideology



The Case of Peter Pan or the Impossibility of Children's Fiction



The Making of the Reader: Language and Subjectivity in Modern American, English and Irish Poetry



Understanding Beckett: A Study of Monologue and Gesture in the Works of Samuel Beckett



Signifying Nothing: The Semiotics of Zero



The Desire to Desire: The Women's Film of the 1940s



'Am I That Name?': Feminism and the Category of 'Women' in History



Not Saussure: A Critique of Post-Saussurean Literary Theory



The Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune



Improvement and Romance: Constructing the Myth of the Highlands



Poetry and Narrative in Performance



Visual and Other Pleasures



The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism



Poets on Writing: Britain, 1970-1991



The Crisis in Historical Materialism



The Birth of Pandora and the Division of Knowledge



On Pornography: Literature, Sexuality and Obscenity Law



De-Hegemonizing Language Standards: Learning from (Post)Colonial Englishes about 'English'



Resources of Realism: Prospects for a 'Post-Analytic' Philosophy



The Destructive Element: British Psychoanalysis and Modernisms



Death of Life: The Legacy of Molecular Biology



Pragmatics as Interpretation



Cities, Words and Images: From Poe to Scorsese



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