Critical theory meets Latin American fiction and poetry in this challenging analysis of literature and literary criticism through the agencies of post-structuralism. A reminder that deconstructions cannot occur spontaneously, it highlights the confrontation between theory, politics and literature. The use of literary theory never as a circumscribed field, never as an alternative to literary study, but built ever instrumentally into critical practice, may ensure that one's own reading, each and every time, will be rendered, ...
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Critical theory meets Latin American fiction and poetry in this challenging analysis of literature and literary criticism through the agencies of post-structuralism. A reminder that deconstructions cannot occur spontaneously, it highlights the confrontation between theory, politics and literature. The use of literary theory never as a circumscribed field, never as an alternative to literary study, but built ever instrumentally into critical practice, may ensure that one's own reading, each and every time, will be rendered, soon, unreadable, a deconstructed, displaced authority. If there appears to be an inexorable shift towards a preoccupation with the role of an ethics in deconstructive discursiveness this book suggests that the enterprises of post-structuralism and post Marxism are not, by any means necessarily, at odds.Bernard McGuirk's standing as a literary and cultural critic has long been internationally recognized. His work has been commissioned for publication in English, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. His worldwide reputation is reflected in critical responses to his writings over three decades that attest to his status as a leading critic of both Latin American and comparative literature, not least in his acclaimed Latin American Literature: Symptoms, Risks and Strategies of Post-structuralist Criticism (Routledge), substantially revised and expanded in the present volume.
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