The Critical I, Volume 10Columbia University Press, 1992 - 262 pages Asserting that literary theory needs a dose of common sense, this treatise attacks Saussurean linguistics as outmoded and discredited in its elimination of its subjects. It claims that postmodernist ideas of the individual rest on false linguistic and psychological premises. |
Contents
Agnes | 3 |
5 | 20 |
Identity | 26 |
7 | 32 |
8 | 41 |
The Model | 48 |
12 | 71 |
The Challenges | 75 |
Saussure | 122 |
Chomsky | 133 |
Derrida Again | 151 |
Vanishing the l | 167 |
Barthes | 171 |
Foucault | 176 |
Eco | 179 |
Iser | 184 |
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