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Cultural Criticism, Literary Theory, Poststructuralism

By: Vincent B. Leitch

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Hardcover | 22 December 1992 | Edition Number 1

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Leitch argues for the use of poststructural theory in cultural criticism. He maintains that deconstruction remains crucial for a truly critical approach to cultural studies. Literary critics now frequently use sociological, historical, political, and institutional methods of inquiry. This turn toward "dis-course" and away from "literature" has led to a resurgence of cultural criticism, a mode of analysis revitalized and reformed by the arrival of "theory". Leitch illustrates the weak points of influential predecessors, showing how poststructuralism offers useful advances over reigning modes of critical inquiry. Leitch develops positions on key topics: social formations and cultural critique; authorship and intention; "poetic" discourse and the social text; literary genre and cultural convention; minority literatures and "general poetics"; textual interpretation and assessment; institutional theory and analysis; and Birmingham's Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies and poststructuralism. He draws on the work of Barthes, Deleuze, de Man, Derrida, Foucault, Jameson, Kristeva, Lentricchia, Lyotard, Said, and Scholes - whose work he does not hesitate to criticize.

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Preface
Acknowledgments
Analyzing Regimes	p. 1
Regimes of Reason	p. 2
Poststructuralist Cultural Critique	p. 8
Ethicopolitical Parameters	p. 10
(De)Authorizing Literary Discourse	p. 19
Public and Private Authors	p. 19
Author Functions	p. 26
"Historical" Authors	p. 31
Epical/Epochal Scriptors	p. 36
Styling ("Poetic") Language, Rhetoric, Discourse	p. 39
"Poetic" Language and Literariness	p. 40
Rhetoric and Rhetoricity	p. 43
The Body, the Unconscious, and the Social Order	p. 50
Heteroglot Discourse and Poetry	p. 55
Aberrant Subjects	p. 59
(De)Coding (Generic) Discourse	p. 62
Forms, Conventions, Institutions	p. 63
Problems of Genealogies and Taxonomies	p. 66
Amalgamations and Anomalies	p. 72
"Pragmatics" of Genre	p. 74
Questions of Gender	p. 78
Transformations of Genre Studies	p. 80
Pluralizing Poetics	p. 83
Black Aesthetics in America	p. 84
Women's Literatures	p. 90
Minoritarian Poetics	p. 92
Postcolonial Theory	p. 94
The "Minor" and the "Marginal"	p. 99
Pluralizing Poetics and Beyond	p. 102
"Reading" Texts	p. 104
Disorders of Reading	p. 105
The Matter of Evaluation	p. 111
Problems with Reader-Response Theories	p. 112
Two Modes of Misreading	p. 117
Reading as Allegorical Rewriting	p. 121
Critical Reading Close Reading	p. 124
Figuring (in) Institutions	p. 126
Theory of Institutions	p. 127
Apparatuses of Knowledge/Power	p. 129
The Institution of English Studies	p. 136
Institutional Analysis and Cultural Critique	p. 143
Reconnoitering Birmingham Cultural Studies	p. 145
Protocol of Entanglement	p. 146
Poststructuralism and Popular Culture	p. 148
Crisis of Marxist Critique	p. 156
Conclusion	p. 163
References	p. 173
Index	p. 181
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