The Language, Discourse, Society Reader

✍ Scribed by Stephen Heath, Colin MacCabe, Denise Riley

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 435
• 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

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Notes on the Contributors......Page 10
Introduction......Page 14
1 Colin MacCabe, James Joyce and The Revolution of the Word (1978)......Page 26
2 Paul Hirst, On Law and Ideology (1979)......Page 45
3 Michel Pêcheux, Language, Semantics and Ideology (1982)......Page 64
4 Jacqueline Rose, The Case of Peter Pan or The Impossibility of Children’s Fiction (1984)......Page 75
5 David Trotter, The Making of the Reader: Language and Subjectivity in Modern American, English and Irish Poetry (1984)......Page 86
6 Peter Gidal, Understanding Beckett: A Study of Monologue and Gesture in the Works of Samuel Beckett (1986)......Page 106
7 Brian Rotman, Signifying Nothing: The Semiotics of Zero (1987)......Page 114
8 Mary Ann Doane, The Desire to Desire: The Woman’s Film of the 1940s (1988)......Page 141
9 Denise Riley, ‘Am I That Name?’ Feminism and the Category of ‘Women’ in History (1988)......Page 151
10 Raymond Tallis, Not Saussure: A Critique of Post-Saussurean Literary Theory (1988)......Page 170
11 Kristin Ross, The Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune (1988)......Page 187
12 Peter Womack, Improvement and Romance: Constructing the Myth of the Highlands (1989)......Page 205
13 Douglas Oliver, Poetry and Narrative in Performance (1989)......Page 224
14 Laura Mulvey, Visual and Other Pleasures (1989)......Page 237
15 Cornel West, The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism (1989)......Page 257
16 Stanley Aronowitz, The Crisis in Historical Materialism (1990)......Page 274
17 Denise Riley (ed.) Poets on Writing: Britain, l970–1991 (1992)......Page 288
18 Barrell, John, The Birth of Pandora and the Division of Knowledge (1992)......Page 300
19 Ian Hunter, David Saunders and Dugald Williamson, On Pornography: Literature, Sexuality and Obscenity Law (1993)......Page 329
20 Arjuna Parakrama, De-Hegemonizing Language Standards: Learning from (Post)Colonial Englishes about ‘English’ (1995)......Page 353
21 Christopher Norris, Resources of Realism: Prospects for a ‘Post-Analytic’ Philosophy (1997)......Page 357
22 Lyndsey Stonebridge, The Destructive Element: British Psychoanalysis and Modernism (1998)......Page 375
23 Stanley Shostak, Death of Life: The Legacy of Molecular Biology (1998)......Page 386
24 Jean-Jacques Lecercle, Pragmatics as Interpretation (1999)......Page 399
25 Patrizia Lombardo, Cities, Words and Images: From Poe to Scorsese (2003)......Page 407
Series Bibliography......Page 421
C......Page 429
F......Page 430
K......Page 431
N......Page 432
R......Page 433
W......Page 434
Z......Page 435