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Culture and the Real
Theorizing Cultural Criticism
Series: New Accents
What makes us the people we are? Culture evidently plays a part, but how large a part? Is culture alone the source of our identities? Some have argued that human nature is the foundation of culture, others that culture is the foundation of human identity. Catherine Belsey calls for a more nuanced,...
Published December 8th 2004 by Routledge
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Critical Practice
2nd Edition
Series: New Accents
What is poststructuralist theory, and what difference does it make to literary criticism? Where do we find the meaning of the text: in the author's head? in the reader's? Or do we, instead, make meaning in the practice of reading itself? If so, what part do our own values play in the process of...
Published May 15th 2002 by Routledge
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Critical Practice
Series: New Accents
What is poststructuralist theory, and what difference does it make to literary criticism? Where do we find the meaning of the text: in the author's head? in the reader's? Or do we, instead, make meaning in the practice of reading itself? If so, what part do our own values play in the process of...
Published May 15th 2002 by Routledge