The Critical Decade: Culture in Crisis

The Critical Decade: Culture in Crisis
ISBN-10
1857540158
ISBN-13
9781857540154
Category
Literary Criticism / General
Pages
194
Language
English
Published
1993
Publisher
Carcanet
Author
Nicolas Tredell

Description

A revolution took place in literary criticism in the 1980s. In a series of trenchant case-studies, The Critical Decade examines that revolution and assesses its consequences. Nicholas Tredell analyses deconstruction and poststructuralism and investigates the relations between literature, society and politics. He discusses Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, Jean-Paul Sartre, Raymond Williams, Terry Eagleton, Perry Anderson, Jonathan Culler, Robert Scholes, Stanley Fish, J. Hillis Miller, Edward Said and Frederic Jameson. He also explores modern feminist theory. Wide-ranging and informed, lively and controversial, The Critical Decade is an essential contribution to the cultural debates of the 1990s.

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