The shape of the signifier : 1967 to the end of history / Walter Benn Michaels.

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Michaels, Walter Benn [author.]

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text

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computer

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online resource

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9781400849598
1400849594

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Shape of the signifierDDC classification:

801/.95/0904 22

LOC classification:

PS25 .M53 2004eb

Other classification:

17.80
18.06
HR 1150
HU 1070
HU 1095
HU 1520

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Contents:

I: Posthistoricism -- The end of history -- Political science fictions -- Partez au vert/Go on the green -- The shape of the signifier -- The end of theory -- II: Prehistoricism -- Rocks -- And stones -- And trees -- III: Historicism -- Remembering -- Reliving -- Dismembering -- Forgetting -- Coda: empires of the senseless.

Summary: The Shape of the Signifier is a critique of recent theory--primarily literary but also cultural and political. Bringing together previously unconnected strands of Michaels's thought--from ""Against Theory"" to Our America--it anatomizes what's fundamentally at stake when we think of literature in terms of the experience of the reader rather than the intention of the author, and when we substitute the question of who people are for the question of what they believe. With signature virtuosity, Michaels shows how the replacement of ideological difference (we believe diff

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-212) and index.

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The Shape of the Signifier is a critique of recent theory--primarily literary but also cultural and political. Bringing together previously unconnected strands of Michaels's thought--from ""Against Theory"" to Our America--it anatomizes what's fundamentally at stake when we think of literature in terms of the experience of the reader rather than the intention of the author, and when we substitute the question of who people are for the question of what they believe. With signature virtuosity, Michaels shows how the replacement of ideological difference (we believe diff

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