A Critical And Cultural Theory Reader

by Easthope, Antony; McGowan, Kate

• ISBN13: 9780802038005
• ISBN10: 080203800X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr

Summary

The 'death of literature' and the rise of post-structuralist theory has breached the traditional opposition between the literary canon and popular culture, both in principle and in academic practice. When first published in 1992, The Critical and Cultural Theory Readerserved the growing need for a collection of essays and extracts for the study of both high and popular culture together. Now, the second and expanded edition of this highly successful reader reflects the growing diversity of the field and includes thirteen new essays. Divided into six thematic sections - semiology, ideology, subjectivity, difference, gender and race, and postmodernism - the reader features an editors' introduction to the volume, introductions to each of the thematic sections, as well as invaluable summaries of each of the extracts. The second edition includes excerpts from essential works of cultural theorists Louis Althusser, Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, Homi K. Bhabha, Judith Butler, Hlne Cixous, Simone de Beauvoir, Ferdinand de Saussure, Jacques Derrida, Umberto Eco, Frederick Engels, Franz Fanon, Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Lacan, Jean-Franois Lyotard, Colin MacCabe, Pierre Macherey, Karl Marx, Kobena Mercer, Laura Mulvey, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Edward Said, and Slavoj Zi zek. It will prove indispensable to students of critical and cultural theory, as well as communications and popular culture.

Author Biography

The late Anthony Easthope was a professor in the Department of English at Manchester Metropolitan University. Kate McGowan is a senior lecturer in the Department of English at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
Introduction	1	(2)
SECTION 1 Semiology
Introduction	3	(2)
Course in General Linguistics	5	(7)
Ferdinand de Saussure
`The Great Family of Man' from Mythologies	12	(3)
Roland Barthes
A Theory of Literary Production	15	(9)
Pierre Macherey
`The Narrative Structure in Fleming'	24	(4)
Umberto Eco
`Realism and the Cinema'	28	(9)
Colin MacCabe
SECTION 2 Ideology
Introduction	33	(4)
`Preface', A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy	37	(2)
Karl Marx
The German Ideology	39	(3)
Karl Marx
Friedrich Engels
`Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses'	42	(9)
Louis Althusser
The Second Sex	51	(4)
Simone de Beauvoir
Orientalism	55	(7)
Edward Said
`The ``Other'' Question'	62	(8)
Homi K. Bhabha
The Sublime Object of Ideology	70	(7)
Slavoj Zizek
SECTION 3 Subjectivity
Introduction	73	(4)
Beyond the Pleasure Principle	77	(4)
Sigmund Freud
`The Mirror Stage'	81	(6)
Jacques Lacan
Black Skin/White Masks	87	(3)
Frantz Fanon
`The System and the Speaking Subject'	90	(4)
Julia Kristeva
Discipline and Punish	94	(8)
Michel Foucault
The History of Sexuality	102	(6)
Michel Foucault
The Pleasure of the Text	108	(12)
Roland Barthes
SECTION 4 Difference
Introduction	113	(7)
`Difference'	120	(28)
Jacques Derrida
SECTION 5 Gender and Race
Introduction	143	(5)
`On the Universal Tendency to Debasement in the Sphere of Love'	148	(9)
Sigmund Freud
`Sorties'	157	(10)
Helene Cixous
`Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema'	167	(10)
Laura Mulvey
`Reading Racial Fetishism'	177	(7)
Kobena Mercer
Real and Imagined Women	184	(7)
Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
Gender Trouble	191	(6)
Judith Butler
```Race'', Time and the Revision of Modernity'	197	(9)
Homi K. Bhabha
SECTION 6 Postmodernism
Introduction	203	(3)
The Postmodern Condition	206	(12)
Jean-Francois Lyotard
Simulations	218	(3)
Jean Baudrillard
The Inhuman	221	(3)
Jean-Francois Lyotard
The Gift of Death	224	(4)
Jacques Derrida
The Spirit of Terrorism	228	(3)
Jean Baudrillard
Welcome to the Desert of the Real	231	(4)
Slavoj Zizek
Summaries	235	(33)
Biographical notes	268	(4)
Bibliography	272	(9)
Index	281