From the New Criticism to Deconstruction: The Reception of Structuralism and Post-structuralismUniversity of Illinois Press, 1988 - 331 pages From the New Criticism to Deconstruction traces the transitions in American critical theory and practice from the 1950s to the 1980s. It focuses on the influence of French structuralism and post-structuralism on American deconstruction within a wide-ranging context that includes literary criticism, philosophy, psychology, technology, and politics. |
Contents
CHAPTER ONE | 7 |
Hobbes | 11 |
Locke | 13 |
Berkeley | 17 |
Hume | 19 |
Hume on Taste | 22 |
Conclusion | 24 |
CHAPTER TWO | 26 |
Barthes Culler | 145 |
Language and Meaning | 151 |
History and Politics | 155 |
The Concept of Self | 159 |
Empiricism Once Again | 164 |
Conclusion | 168 |
CHAPTER SEVEN | 171 |
PostStructuralist Suppositions | 172 |
The Poem as Object | 29 |
Poetry and Meaning | 33 |
The Poet | 40 |
Language | 49 |
Conclusion | 56 |
CHAPTER THREE | 60 |
Science Technology Society | 61 |
Existentialism | 69 |
Behaviorism and the Alternatives | 78 |
Conclusion | 82 |
CHAPTER FOUR | 83 |
Transition to the 1960s | 84 |
Concerning Mentality | 89 |
Criticism Modern Science and Kuhn | 92 |
Frye | 96 |
The Political Context | 101 |
Linguistics and Chomsky | 105 |
CHAPTER FIVE | 114 |
Saussure | 115 |
Structure and the Subject | 119 |
Meaning and Narrative | 122 |
Structure and Poetry | 132 |
Conclusion | 141 |
CHAPTER SIX | 144 |
The Order of Things | 177 |
Language and the Unconscious | 185 |
Althusser | 194 |
CHAPTER EIGHT | 199 |
Language and Truth | 200 |
Literary Critical Theory | 208 |
Language as Art | 213 |
Language Empiricism Romanticism | 217 |
CHAPTER NINE | 223 |
Deconstruction and PostStructuralism | 224 |
Interpretation as Impasse | 229 |
Contradiction and Meaning | 239 |
The Critic as Seer | 253 |
Poetry and Anxiety | 266 |
The Critical Setting | 275 |
Deconstruction the New Criticism and Romanticism | 276 |
Science and Literary Interpretation | 281 |
Self Psychology Religion | 292 |
The Feminist Self | 296 |
Self and Politics | 300 |
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Common terms and phrases
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