Post-structuralism and the question of history / edited by Derek Attridge, Geoff Bennington, and Robert Young.

Contributor(s): Young, Robert, 1950- | Attridge, Derek | Bennington, Geoffrey
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge Cambridgeshire ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987Description: viii, 292 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0521327598; 9780521327596; 0521367808; 9780521367806Subject(s): Structuralism (Literary analysis)DDC classification: 801.95 LOC classification: D16.9 | .P755 1987Online resources: Table of contents
Contents:
Introduction: posing the question Geoff Bennington and Robert Young; Part I. History, Marxism and the Institution: 1. Demanding history Geoff Bennington; 2. Speculations on reading Marx: after reading Derrida Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak; 3. Texts in history: the determinations of readings and their texts Tony Bennett; 4. Criticism and institutions: the American university Jonathan Culler; Part II. Difference and History: 5. History traces Marian Hobson; 6. Derrida and Foucault: writing the history of historicity Ann Wordsworth; 7. The practice of historical investigation Mark Cousins; Part III. Aesthetics and History: 8. Of aesthetic and historical determination Rodolphe Gashe; 9. The sign of history Jean-Francois Lyotard; Part IV. History as Text: 10. Language as history/history as language: Saussure and the romance of etymology Derek Attridge; 11. Fallen differences, phallogocentric discourses: losing Paradise Lost to history Mary Nyquist; 12. Ezra Pound: the erasure of history Maud Ellmann; 13. The phonograph in Africa: international phonocentrism from Stanley to Sarnoff William Pietz; Notes on the contributors; Index.
Summary: This collection of essays is unique in focusing on this central debate in literary studies today: the relation between post-structuralist and historical (especially Marxist) literary theory and criticism.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: posing the question Geoff Bennington and Robert Young; Part I. History, Marxism and the Institution: 1. Demanding history Geoff Bennington; 2. Speculations on reading Marx: after reading Derrida Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak; 3. Texts in history: the determinations of readings and their texts Tony Bennett; 4. Criticism and institutions: the American university Jonathan Culler; Part II. Difference and History: 5. History traces Marian Hobson; 6. Derrida and Foucault: writing the history of historicity Ann Wordsworth; 7. The practice of historical investigation Mark Cousins; Part III. Aesthetics and History: 8. Of aesthetic and historical determination Rodolphe Gashe; 9. The sign of history Jean-Francois Lyotard; Part IV. History as Text: 10. Language as history/history as language: Saussure and the romance of etymology Derek Attridge; 11. Fallen differences, phallogocentric discourses: losing Paradise Lost to history Mary Nyquist; 12. Ezra Pound: the erasure of history Maud Ellmann; 13. The phonograph in Africa: international phonocentrism from Stanley to Sarnoff William Pietz; Notes on the contributors; Index.

This collection of essays is unique in focusing on this central debate in literary studies today: the relation between post-structuralist and historical (especially Marxist) literary theory and criticism.

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