The Structural Allegory: Reconstructive Encounters with the New French Thought (Volume 11) (Theory and History of Literature) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816612706 ISBN 13: 9780816612703

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 1984

Synopsis

The Structural Allegory was first published in 1984. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

The radical questions raised by Saussure, Barthes, Foucault, Levi-Strauss, and others have had an enormous impact on Anglo-American literary and cultural studies over the past twenty years. John Fekete argues that we can see this strategic development of French thought in terms of what he calls "the structural allegory." Structuralism proper has given way to the currently dominant model of post-structuralism, yet we remain uncertain of the practical orientations favored by thinkers associated with both phases of the movement.

With the aim of uncovering the legacy of the structural tradition, the essays in this volume survey key French thinkers, including some not well known in the Anglo-American context — Baudrillard and Castoriadis. The essays are reconstructive, not deconstructive, in character, scholarly in method, and ecumenical in spirit. While the structural allegory emerges from this critical analysis as an inescapable intellectual paradigm (analogous to the transformations in quantum physics and modern biology), the authors argue that it merits admiration and reservation in equal measure.

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About the Author

John Fekete is professor of English and cultural studies at Trent University in Canada and the author of The Critical Twilight.

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Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible to scholars, students, researchers, and general readers. Rich with historical and cultural value, these works are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The books offered through Minnesota Archive Editions are produced in limited quantities according to customer demand and are available through select distribution partners.

Edition details

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0816612706
• ISBN 13: 9780816612703
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Fekete John