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Book SynopsisConvinced that cultural criticism need not merely be an academic exercise but can help improve people's lives, Mark Bracher proposes a method of cultural criticism which is based on the principles of psychoanalytic treatment and which aims to alter...
Trade Review"In addition to his lucid presentation of Lacanian theory, Bracher's readings of political and literary discourses furnish a fresh perspective on familiar topics and texts. His objective of making cultural criticism socially significant raises important questions about the functions of criticism and of pedagogy. A thoroughly interesting, appealing, and original book."
"The project of designing a Lacanian cultural criticism is an ongoing and crucial one, and this book will make a significant contribution to current discussion. It is distinctive in both its theoretical core and its areas of critical analysis. In addition, Bracher's critique of New Historicism is astute and timely and should be productively controversial." -- Julia Reinhard Lupton and Kenneth Reinhard
