Reading Theory: An Introduction to Lacan, Derrida and Kristeva / Edition 1

by Michael Payne

Overview

'Deconstruction', 'psychoanalysis', and 'semiotics' have become part of the vocabulary of contempoorary culture. Reading Theory introduces the principal texts by Derrida, Lacan and Kristeva that are behind these terms and that provide their contexts. This book concentrates its attention on making accessible what these three theorists have written, rather than offering a synthetic construction of the fashionable terminology of theory.

Works carefully through key texts by the leading contemporary theorists Clear, accessible and introductory Challenges recent attacks on theory and on Derrida.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780631182894
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	08/20/1993
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

Michael Payne is John P. Crozer Professor and Heaad of English at Bucknell University, Pennsylvania. He is the author of Irony in Shakespeare's Roman Plays and the editor of several volumes of criticism and theory, including the forthcoming Blackwell Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory.

Table of Contents

List of Plates.

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

List of Abbreviations.

1. Theoretical Beginnings: Introductions to Lacan, Derrida and Kristeva.

2. Ecrits: A Selection.

3. Of Grammatology.

4. Revolution in Poetic Language.

5. Reading Paintings.

Appendix I: Lacan's Use of Freud's German Terms.

Appendix II: Derrida's Abbreviated Citations.

Appendix III: Some Kristevan Terms.

Index.

Editorial Reviews

"[Shows] perception and originality." Julia Kristeva

"By intensive reading clarified by historical and intertexual contexts of each of the authors, he achieves a series of brilliant explications".... I have never read a more lucid explanation of these ideas". James R. Bennett, University of Arkansas

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