This book addresses the central crisis in critical theory today: the attempts to theorize the subject as both a construct of discourse and a dialogical agent. In Theorising Textual Subjects, Meili Steele argues that it is possible to understand the postmodern subject as an active political agent. St
Renegotiating Ethics in Literature, Philosophy, and Theory (Literature, Culture, Theory)
โ Scribed by Jane Adamson, Richard Freadman, David Parker
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 304
- Category
- Library
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