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A CRITICAL AND CULTURAL THEORY READER Edited by Antony Easthope McGowan and Kate Digitized by the Internet Archive 2012 in http://www.archive.org/details/isbn_9780802029126 A CRITICAL AND CULTURAL THEORY READER A CRITICAL AND CULTURAL THEORY READER edited by Antony Easthope and Kate McGowan University of Toronto Press Toronto and Buffalo First published in North America in 1992 by University of Toronto Press Toronto and Buffalo ISBN 0-8020-7416-2 (cloth) ISBN 0-8020-2912-4 (paper) Copyright © Antony Easthope and Kate McGowan 1992 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, without written permission from the publisher. Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Main entry under title: A critical and cultural theory reader ISBN 0-8020-7416-2 (bound) ISBN 0-8020-2912-4 (pbk.) 1. Popular culture. 2. Criticism. 3. Culture. 4. Structuralism (Literary analysis). I. Easthope, Antony. II. McGowan, Kate. PN81.C75 1992 801'.95 C92-094197-4 Printed and bound in Great Britain 1 CONTENTS Acknowledgements VII Introduction 1 SECTION 1 SEMIOLOGY 5 Introduction 5 1. Ferdinand de Saussure, from Course in General Linguistics 7 1.2 Roland Barthes, from Mythologies 14 1.3 Pierre Macherey, from A Theory ofLiterary Production 21 1.4 Roland Barthes, from SIZ 31 1.5 Colin MacCabe, from 'Realism and the Cinema' 35 SECTION 2 IDEOLOGY 41 Introduction 41 2.1 Karl Marx, from 'Preface to the Critique' 45 2.2 Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, from The German Ideology 47 2.3 Louis Althusser, from 'Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses' 50 2.4 Edward Said, from Orientalism 59 SECTION 3 SUBJECTIVITY 67 Introduction 67 3.1 Jacques Lacan, 'The Mirror Stage' from Merits 71 3.2 Julia Kristeva, from 'The System and the Speaking Subject' 3.3 Michel Foucault, from Discipline and Punish 81 3.4 Michel Foucault, from The History ofSexuality 90 3.5 Roland Barthes, from The Pleasure ofthe Text 96 Vi A CRITICAL AND CULTURAL THEORYREADER SECTION 4 DIFFERENCE 1 1 4.1 Jacques Derrida, from 'Differance' 108 SECTION 5 GENDER 133 Introduction 133 5.1 Sigmund Freud, 'On the Universal Tendency towards Debasement in Love' 137 5.2 Helene Cixous, from 'Sorties' 146 5.3 Laura Mulvey, from 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema' 158 5.4 Gayatri Spivak, from 'Displacement and the Discourse of Woman' 167 SECTION 6 POSTMODERNISM 181 Introduction 181 6.1 Jean-Francois Lyotard, from The Postmodern Condition 184 6.2 Fredric Jameson, from Postmodernism 196 6.3 Jean Baudrillard, from Simulations 203 SECTION 7 DOCUMENTS IN CULTURAL THEORY 207 Introduction 207 7.1 F. R. Leavis, from Mass Civilisation and Minority Culture 209 7.2 Theodore Adorno, from 'On Popular Music' 211 7.3 Raymond Williams, from Culture and Society 224 7.4 Raymond Williams, 'Popular' from Keywords 231 7.5 Tristan Tzara, from 'Memoirs of Dadaism' 233 Summaries 237 Biographies 260 References 263 Index 268
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