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The Shape of the Signifier: 1967 to the End of History
Walter Benn Michaels
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Description for The Shape of the Signifier: 1967 to the End of History
Paperback. Anatomizes what's fundamentally at stake when we think of literature in terms of the experience of the reader rather than the intention of the author, and when we substitute the question of who people are for the question of what they believe. Num Pages: 232 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 350.
The Shape of the Signifier is a critique of recent theory--primarily literary but also cultural and political. Bringing together previously unconnected strands of Michaels's thought--from Against Theory to Our America--it anatomizes what's fundamentally at stake when we think of literature in terms of the experience of the reader rather than the intention of the author, and when we substitute the question of who people are for the question of what they believe. With signature virtuosity, Michaels shows how the replacement of ideological difference (we believe different things) with identitarian difference (we speak different languages, we have different bodies ... Read more
The Shape of the Signifier is a critique of recent theory--primarily literary but also cultural and political. Bringing together previously unconnected strands of Michaels's thought--from Against Theory to Our America--it anatomizes what's fundamentally at stake when we think of literature in terms of the experience of the reader rather than the intention of the author, and when we substitute the question of who people are for the question of what they believe. With signature virtuosity, Michaels shows how the replacement of ideological difference (we believe different things) with identitarian difference (we speak different languages, we have different bodies ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
234
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Weight
377g
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691126180
SKU
V9780691126180
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About Walter Benn Michaels
Walter Benn Michaels is Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is the author of The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism and Our America .
Reviews for The Shape of the Signifier: 1967 to the End of History
Michaels's absorbing new book swims against the critical stream with a brilliance and originality unmatched this side of Slavoj Zizek.
Henry Staten, Modernism/modernity [This] book is not scholarship, criticism, or theory. It is a brazen call for the return to ideology.
Lindsay Waters, Chronicle of Higher Education [W]hat makes this book compelling ... is his central thesis: that ... Read more
Henry Staten, Modernism/modernity [This] book is not scholarship, criticism, or theory. It is a brazen call for the return to ideology.
Lindsay Waters, Chronicle of Higher Education [W]hat makes this book compelling ... is his central thesis: that ... Read more