In Ideology and Inscription Tom Cohen questions the way history, ideology and politics are invoked in contemporary cultural studies. Enlisting the work of three seminal figures in literary theory - Walter Benjamin, Paul de Man, and M. Bakhtin - Cohen argues for a new politics of memory that moves beyond what he sees as our current paralysing preoccupation with the present, and also for a new approach to the reading and analysis of cultural texts that breaks with the mimetic premises of traditional criticism. The book ...
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In Ideology and Inscription Tom Cohen questions the way history, ideology and politics are invoked in contemporary cultural studies. Enlisting the work of three seminal figures in literary theory - Walter Benjamin, Paul de Man, and M. Bakhtin - Cohen argues for a new politics of memory that moves beyond what he sees as our current paralysing preoccupation with the present, and also for a new approach to the reading and analysis of cultural texts that breaks with the mimetic premises of traditional criticism. The book challenges many of the prevailing methodologies and assumptions of the contemporary critical scene and, through analyses of such topics as the rhetoric of science, ecological criticism, and the films of Hitchcock, demonstrates the subtlety and critical power of a more genuinely 'materialist' approach to a wide range of cultural texts.
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Good Condition. Book is in very good condition with only slight shelf-wear. Internally clean and bright, with uncreased pages. Bindings and spine firm and tight. x, 258 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Philosophy; Criticism; Aesthetics; Criticism (Philosophy); ISBN: 0521599679. ISBN/EAN: 9780521599672. Add. Inventory No: 240205RM053.
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Like New. Size: 5x0x8; [From the library of noted scholar Richard A. Macksey. ] Softcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. "Richard A. Macksey was a celebrated Johns Hopkins University professor whose affiliation with the university spanned six and a half decades. A legendary figure not only in his own fields of critical theory, comparative literature, and film studies but across all the humanities, Macksey possessed enormous intellectual capacity and a deeply insightful human nature. He was a man who read and wrote in six languages, was instrumental in launching a new era in structuralist thought in America, maintained a personal library containing a staggering collection of books and manuscripts, inspired generations of students to follow him to the thorniest heights of the human intellect, and penned or edited dozens of volumes of scholarly works, fiction, poetry, and translation."-Johns Hopkins University.
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Near Fine with no dust jacket. 0521599679. Previous owner's name blacked out inside front cover. Otherwise a fine copy.; Literature, Culture, Theory, Series Number 27; Height: 8.51 Inches, Length: 5.51 Inches, Weight: 0.771617917 Pounds, Width; 270 pages.
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New. Trade paperback (US). Contains: Unspecified. Literature, Culture, Theory . Includes unspecified. Intended for professional and scholarly audience.
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