Discourse/Counter-Discourse
Download or Read eBook Discourse/Counter-Discourse PDF written by Richard Terdiman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Author | : Richard Terdiman |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2018-05-31 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781501717611 |
ISBN-13 | : 1501717618 |
Rating | : 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Discourse/Counter-Discourse by : Richard Terdiman
Book excerpt: 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.