In this stimulating study Robert Con Davis and Ronald Schleifer ask important questions about the nature of literary study. What is literary criticism? How does it come about, change and interact with the culture within which it operates? In suggesting answers to these questions, Criticism and Culture provides an important new history and interpretation of literary criticism as an intellectual and cultural activity in the Twentieth Century.

Criticism and Culture: The Role of Critique in Modern Literary Theory

Literature & Fiction

Schleifer, Ronald

Davis, Robert Con

History & Criticism

Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

Contemporary literary criticism: Modernism through poststructuralism (Longman English and humanities series)

Jacques Derrida

Jerry Aline Flieger

Shoshana Fellman

Eric Auerbach

T.S.Eliot

michel-foucault

Longman

This impressive and up-to-date collection of key essays on the most significant developments in late twentieth century literary and cultural criticism includes illuminating discussions of the trends and forces at work in these texts.

Contemporary Literary Criticism: Literary and Cultural Studies (4th Edition)

Pearson

This groundbreaking book challenges the disciplinary boundaries that have traditionally separated scientific inquiry from literary inquiry. It explores scientific knowledge in three subject areas--the natural history of aging, literary narrative, and psychoanalysis. In the authors' view, the different perspectives on cognition afforded by Anglo-American cognitive science, Greimassian semiotics, and Lacanian psychoanalysis help us to redefine our very notion of culture.

Culture and Cognition: The Boundaries of Literary and Scientific Inquiry

Mergler, Nancy

Cornell Univ Pr

This groundbreaking book challenges the disciplinary boundaries that have traditionally separated scientific inquiry from literary inquiry. It explores scientific knowledge in three subject areas--the natural history of aging, literary narrative, and psychoanalysis. In the authors' view, the different perspectives on cognition afforded by Anglo-American cognitive science, Greimassian semiotics, and Lacanian psychoanalysis help us to redefine our very notion of culture.

Cornell University Press

Nine distinguished scholars assess the influence of Jacques Lacan on literary theory. From various perspectives, they pursue the implications for narrative theory of Lacanian reading and attempt to position Lacan's thinking in the context of current discussions of narration and narratology.

Lacan and Narration: The Psychoanalytic Difference in Narrative Theory

Jeffrey Mehlman

The Johns Hopkins University Press

This groundbreaking book challenges the disciplinary boundaries that have traditionally separated scientific inquiry from literary inquiry. It explores scientific knowledge in three subject areas―the natural history of aging, literary narrative, and psychoanalysis. In the authors' view, the different perspectives on cognition afforded by Anglo-American cognitive science, Greimassian semiotics, and Lacanian psychoanalysis help us to redefine our very notion of culture.
Part I historically situates the concepts of meaning and truth in twentieth-century semiotic theory and cognitive science. Part II contrasts the modes of Freudian case history to the general instance of Einstein's relativity theory and then sets forth a rhetoric of narrative based on the discourse of the aged. Part III examines in the context of literary studies an interdisciplinary concept of cultural cognition.
Culture and Cognition will be essential reading for literary theorists, historians and philosophers of science; semioticians; and scholars and students of cultural studies, the sociology of literature, and science and literature.

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