ABSTRACT
First Published in 2002. It is easy to see that we are living in a time of rapid and radical social change. It is much less easy to grasp the fact that such change will inevitably affect the nature of those disciplines that both reflect our society and help to shape it. Yet this is nowhere more apparent than in the central field of what may, in general terms, be called literary studies. ‘New Accents’ is intended as a positive response to the initiative offered by such a situation. Each volume in the series will seek to encourage rather than resist the process of change. To stretch rather than reinforce the boundaries that currently define literature and its academic study.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |6 pages
Introduction
part |58 pages
The Superstructuralist way of thinking
chapter |2 pages
Preliminaries
chapter |9 pages
Saussure and the concept of ‘langue'
chapter |13 pages
From Durkheim to Lévi-Strauss
chapter |9 pages
Lacan's Freud
chapter |10 pages
Althusser's Marx
chapter |13 pages
Barthes and Semiotics
part |56 pages
Superstructuralism becomes philosophical
chapter |3 pages
Preliminaries
chapter |7 pages
Metaphysical philosophy
chapter |15 pages
More Structural Linguistics
chapter |9 pages
Althusser and science
chapter |20 pages
Foucault as archaeologist
part |66 pages
Post-Structuralist philosophy