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Discourse/Counter-Discourse : The Theory and Practice of Symbolic Resistance in Nineteenth-Century France
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Discourse/Counter-Discourse is situated on the border between cultural history and literary criticism: combining the insights of Marxism and semiotics, it attempts to delineate the cultural functio...
Discourse/Counter-Discourse is situated on the border between cultural history and literary criticism: combining the insights of Marxism and semiotics, it attempts to delineate the cultural function of texts. Focusing on France during a period of remarkable cultural, social, and political transformation, Richard Terdiman examines both the dominant bourgeois discourse-novels, newspapers, and other mass forms of expression-and the effort of intellectuals to devise counter-discourses to combat it.
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- Creator
- Richard Terdiman
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
- ©1989
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (362 pages) : illustrations
- ISBNs
- 9781501717611, 1501717618, 080149690X, 0801417503
- OCLC
- on1080549057, on1038476412
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 345-356.
- In English.
- Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: On Symbolic Resistance -- PART ONE. Discourses of Domination -- 1. Discourses of Initiation: On Some Contradictions in Balzac's Encounter with the Sign -- 2. Newspaper Culture: Institutions of Discourse; Discourse of Institutions -- PART TWO. Corrosive Intertextualities -- 3. Counter-Images: Daumier and Le Charivari -- 4. Counter-Humorists: Strategies of Resistance in Marx and Flaubert -- 5. Ideological Voyages: On a Flaubertian Dis-Orient-ation -- PART THREE. Absolute Counter-Discourse -- 6. The Paradoxes of Distinction: The Prose Poem as Prose -- 7. The Dialectics of the Prose Poem -- Bibliography of Critical Works -- Index