The Language, Discourse, Society Reader

✍ Scribed by Stephen Heath, Colin MacCabe, Denise Riley (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 435
• Series: Language, Discourse, Society
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-12
Colin MacCabe, James Joyce and The Revolution of the Word (1978)....Pages 13-31
Paul Hirst, On Law and Ideology (1979)....Pages 32-50
Michel Pêcheux, Language,Semantics and Ideology (1982)....Pages 51-61
Jacqueline Rose, The Case of Peter Pan or The Impossibility of Children’s Fiction (1984)....Pages 62-72
David Trotter, The Making of the Reader; Language and Subjectivity in Modern American, English, and Irish Poetry (1984)....Pages 73-92
Peter Gidal, Understanding Beckett: A Study of Monologue and Gesture in the Works of Samuel Beckett (1986)....Pages 93-100
Brian Rotman, Signifying Nothing: The Semiotics of Zero (1987)....Pages 101-127
Mary Ann Doane, The Desire to Desire: The Woman’s Film of the 1940s (1988)....Pages 128-137
Denise Riley, ‘Am I that Name?’ Feminism and the Category of ‘Women’ in History, (1988)....Pages 138-156
Raymond Tallis, Not Saussure: A Critique of Post-Saussurean Literary Theory (1988)....Pages 157-173
Kristin Ross, The Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune (1988)....Pages 174-191
Peter Womack, Improvement and Romance: Constructing the Myth of the Highlands (1989)....Pages 192-210
Douglas Oliver, Poetry and Narrative in Performance (1989)....Pages 211-223
Laura Mulvey, Visual and Other Pleasures (1969)....Pages 224-243
Cornel West, The American Evasion of Philosophy (1989)....Pages 244-260
Stanley Aronowitz, The Crisis in Historical Materialism (1990)....Pages 261-274
Denise Riley (ed.), Poets on Writing:Britain, 1970-1991 (1992)....Pages 275-286
John Barrell, The Birth of Pandora and the Division of Knowledge (1992)....Pages 287-315
Ian Hunter, David Saunders and Dugald Williamson, On Pornography: Literature, Sexuality and Obscenity Law (1993)....Pages 316-339
Arjuna Parakrama, De-Hegemonising Language Standards: Learning from (Post)Colonial Englishes about ‘English’ (1995)....Pages 340-343
Christopher Norris, Resources of Realism: Prospects for ‘Post-Analytic’ Philosophy (1997)....Pages 344-361
Lyndsey Stonebridge, The Destructive Element: British Psychoanalysis and Modernism (1998)....Pages 362-372
Stanley Shostak, Death of Life: The Legacy of Molecular Biology (1998)....Pages 373-385
Jean-Jacques Lecercle; Interpretation as Pragmatics (1999)....Pages 386-393
Patrizia Lombardo, Cities, Words and Images: From Poe to Scorsese (2003)....Pages 394-407
Back Matter....Pages 408-422

✦ Subjects

Literary Theory; Cultural Theory; Linguistics, general