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1. Mikhail Bakhtin

   The Word in the World

   By Graham Pechey

   Series: Critics of the Twentieth Century

   Mikhail Bakhtin is one of the most influential theorists of philosophy as well as literary studies. His work on dialogue and discourse has changed the way in which we read texts – both literary and cultural – and his practice of philosophy in literary refraction and philological exploration has...

   Published April 9th 2007 by Routledge
2. Raymond Williams

   Literature, Marxism and Cultural Materialism

   By John Higgins

   Series: Critics of the Twentieth Century

   Raymond Williams' prolific output is increasingly recognised as the most influential body of work on literary and cultural studies in the past fifty years. This book provides the most comprehensive study to date of the theoretical and historical context of Williams' thinking on literature, politics...

   Published March 17th 1999 by Routledge
3. Jacques Derrida

   Opening Lines

   By Dr Marian Hobson, Marian Hobson

   Series: Critics of the Twentieth Century

   In Jacques Derrida: Opening Lines, Marian Hobson gives us a thorough and elegant analysis of this controversial and seminal contemporary thinker. Looking closely at the language and the construction of some of Derrida's philosophy, Hobson suggests the way he writes, indeed the fact he writes in...

   Published September 2nd 1998 by Routledge
4. Roman Jakobson

   Life, Language and Art

   By Richard Bradford

   Series: Critics of the Twentieth Century

   In Roman Jakobson Richard Bradford reasserts the value of Jakobson's work, arguing that he has a great deal to offer contemporary critical theory and providing a critical appraisal the sweep of Jakobson's career. Bradford re-establishes Jakobson's work as vital to our understanding of the...

   Published April 13th 1994 by Routledge
5. Northrop Frye

   The Theoretical Imagination

   By Jonathan Hart

   Series: Critics of the Twentieth Century

   An indispensable introduction to one of the great critics of the twentieth century, whose work on ideology, aesthetics and social criticism has ensured his place at the centre of cultural studies and contemporary theoretical debates....

   Published April 6th 1994 by Routledge
6. Kenneth Burke

   Rhetoric and Ideology

   By Stephen Bygrave

   Series: Critics of the Twentieth Century

   Kenneth Burke: Rhetoric and Ideology is a lucid and accessible introduction to a major twentieth-century thinker those ideas have influenced fields as diverse as literary theory, philosophy, linguistics, politics and anthropology. Stephen Bygrave explores the content of Burke's vast output of work,...

   Published April 7th 1993 by Routledge
7. Antonio Gramsci

   Beyond Marxism and Postmodernism

   By Renate Holub

   Series: Critics of the Twentieth Century

   This book provides the first detailed account of Gramsci's work in the context of current critical and socio-cultural debates. Renate Holub argues that Gramsci was ahead of his time in offering a theory of art, politics and cultural production. Gramsci's achievement is discussed particularly in...

   Published May 6th 1992 by Routledge
8. William Empson

   Prophet Against Sacrifice

   By Paul H. Fry

   Series: Critics of the Twentieth Century

   William Empson: Prophet Against Sacrifice provides the most coherent account of Empson's diverse career to date. While exploring the richness of Empson's comic genius, Paul H. Fry serves to discredit the appropriation of his name in recent polemic by the conflicting parties of deconstruction and...

   Published November 6th 1991 by Routledge
9. Jurgen Habermas

   Critic in the Public Sphere

   By Robert C. Holub

   Series: Critics of the Twentieth Century

   The most important intellectual in the Federal Republic of Germany for the past three decades, Habermas has been a seminal contributor to fields ranging from sociology and political science to philosophy and cultural studies. Although he has stood at the centre of concern in his native land, he has...

   Published September 4th 1991 by Routledge
10. Introducing Lyotard

    Art and Politics

    By Bill Readings

    Series: Critics of the Twentieth Century

    The first truly introductory text on Lyotard, this book situates Lyotard's interventions in the postmodern debate in the wider context of his rethinking of the politics of representation. Bill Readings examines Lyotard's relationship to structuralism, Marxism and semiotics, and contrasts his work...

    Published January 9th 1991 by Routledge