Structuralism - Softcover

John Sturrock

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0631232397 ISBN 13: 9780631232391

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2003

Synopsis

John Sturrock’s classic explication of Structuralism represents the most succinct and balanced survey available of a major critical movement associated with the thought of such key figures as Lévi-Strauss, Foucault, Barthes, Lacan and Althusser theory.

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• A classic work in literary and cultural theory.
  
• Reissued to coincide with calls for a return to structuralism.
  
• Includes a new introduction by Jean-Michel Rabaté, which explores developments in the reception of structuralist theory in the past five to ten years.

About this title

Book Description:

John Sturrocks classic explication of Structuralism represents the most succinct and balanced survey available of a major critical movement associated with the thought of such key figures as Levi-Strauss, Foucault, Barthes, Lacan and Althusser. Originally celebrated for the way it negotiated a reasoned way between what were extremely impassioned factions of evangelists and their opponents, the book still offers the best and most readily accessible account of the subject.As critics now prove to be increasingly eager to reappraise Structuralism, this edition, with a new introduction by the leading contemporary French theorist, Jean-Michel Rabate, could not be more timely or convenient for the student of critical or literary theory.

About the Author:

John Sturrock is a literary journalist, sometime deputy editor of the Times Literary Supplement, and consulting editor on the London Review of Books. He has written widely on French literature, and is an accomplished translator.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0631232397
• ISBN 13: 9780631232391
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 176