The Language, Discourse, Society Reader

Denise Riley, S. Heath, C. MacCabe, S. Heath, C. MacCabe

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2004
• ISBN:
  9780230213340
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism Theory
• Index: Literature

For the last twenty-five years, Language, Discourse, Society has been the most intellectually challenging series in English. Its titles range across the disciplines from linguistics to biology, from literary criticism to law, combining vigorous scholarship and theoretical analysis at the service of a broad political engagement. This anniversary reader brings together a fascinating group of thinkers from both sides of the Atlantic with an introductory overview from the editors which considers the development of theory and scholarship over the past two decades.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Notes on the Contributors
• Introduction
• 1 Colin MacCabe, James Joyce and The Revolution of the Word (1978)
• 2 Paul Hirst, On Law and Ideology (1979)
• 3 Michel Pêcheux, Language, Semantics and Ideology (1982)
• 4 Jacqueline Rose, The Case of Peter Pan or The Impossibility of Children’s Fiction (1984)
• 5 David Trotter, The Making of the Reader: Language and Subjectivity in Modern American, English and Irish Poetry (1984)
• 6 Peter Gidal, Understanding Beckett: A Study of Monologue and Gesture in the Works of Samuel Beckett (1986)
• 7 Brian Rotman, Signifying Nothing: The Semiotics of Zero (1987)
• 8 Mary Ann Doane, The Desire to Desire: The Woman’s Film of the 1940s (1988)
• 9 Denise Riley, ‘Am I That Name?’ Feminism and the Category of ‘Women’ in History (1988)
• 10 Raymond Tallis, Not Saussure: A Critique of Post-Saussurean Literary Theory (1988)
• 11 Kristin Ross, The Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune (1988)
• 12 Peter Womack, Improvement and Romance: Constructing the Myth of the Highlands (1989)
• 13 Douglas Oliver, Poetry and Narrative in Performance (1989)
• 14 Laura Mulvey, Visual and Other Pleasures (1989)
• 15 Cornel West, The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism (1989)
• 16 Stanley Aronowitz, The Crisis in Historical Materialism (1990)
• 17 Denise Riley (ed.) Poets on Writing: Britain, l970–1991 (1992)
• 18 Barrell, John, The Birth of Pandora and the Division of Knowledge (1992)
• 19 Ian Hunter, David Saunders and Dugald Williamson, On Pornography: Literature, Sexuality and Obscenity Law (1993)
• 20 Arjuna Parakrama, De-Hegemonizing Language Standards: Learning from (Post)Colonial Englishes about ‘English’ (1995)
• 21 Christopher Norris, Resources of Realism: Prospects for a ‘Post-Analytic’ Philosophy (1997)
• 22 Lyndsey Stonebridge, The Destructive Element: British Psychoanalysis and Modernism (1998)
• 23 Stanley Shostak, Death of Life: The Legacy of Molecular Biology (1998)
• 24 Jean-Jacques Lecercle, Pragmatics as Interpretation (1999)
• 25 Patrizia Lombardo, Cities, Words and Images: From Poe to Scorsese (2003)
• Series Bibliography
• Index