A critical and cultural theory reader

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A critical and cultural theory reader

edited by Antony Easthope and Kate McGowan

Open University Press, 1992

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Bibliography: p. [260]-267

Includes index

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Description

Covering semiology, ideology, subjectivity, difference, gender and postmodernism, this reader contains essential writing by Saussure, Barthes, Lacan, Kristeva, Foucault, Derrida, and Cixous, as well as material for the study of popular culture.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Semiology: Ferdinand de Saussure, from "Course in General Linguistics"
  • Roland Barthes, from "Mythologies"
  • Pierre Macherey, from "A Theory of Literary Production"
  • Roland Barthes, from "S/Z"
  • Colin McCabe, from "Realism and the Cinema". Part 2 Ideology: Karl Marx, from "Preface to the Critique"
  • Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, from "The German Ideology"
  • Louis Althusser, from "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses"
  • Edward Said, from "Orientalism". Part 3 Subjectivity: Jacques Lacan, "The Mirror Stage" from "Ecrits"
  • Julia Kristeva, from "The System and the Speaking Subject"
  • "Michael Foucault, from "Discipline and Punish"
  • Michel Foucault, from "The History of Sexuality"
  • Roland Barthes, from "The Pleasure of the Text". Part 4 Difference: Jacques Derrida, from "Differance". Part 5 Gender: "On the Universal Tendency Towards Debasement in Love", Sigmund Freud
  • Helene Cixous, from "Sorties"
  • Laura Mulvey, from "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"
  • Gayatri Spivak, from "Displacement and the Discourse of Woman". Part 6 Postmodernism: Jean-Francois Lyotard, from "The Postmodern Condition"
  • Fredric Jameson, from "Posmodernism"
  • Jean Baudrillard, from "Simulations". Part 7 Documents in Cultural Theory: F.R. Leavis, from "Mass Civilization and Minority Culture"
  • Theodore Adorno, from "On Popular Music"
  • Raymond Williams, from "Culture and Society"
  • Raymond Williams, "Popular" from "Keywords"
  • Tristan Tzara, from "Memoirs of Dadaism".

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