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Thirty years ago the English-speaking world was discovering the work of some of the key poststructuralist theorists for the first time: Jacques Derrida's Of Grammatology had just appeared in translation, as had Roland Barthes' S/Z, Jacques Lacan's Écrits, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's Anti-Oedipus, Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish, and Pierre Macherey's A Theory of Literary Production. English editions of Julia Kristeva's Desire in Language and Jean-François Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition were just around the corner.

The subsequent theory wars' that raged on campuses in the 1980s are now generally seen as a thing of the past: poststructuralism is now, largely, a familiar and widely taught part of the academic landscape in the English-speaking world.

Of all the poststructuralists, Roland Barthes (191580) is probably the most widely read. Mythologies has sold hundreds of thous

Roland Barthes

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis
      Imprint Taylor & Francis Ltd
      ISBN-13 9780415472579
      978-0415472579
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Thirty years ago the English-speaking world was discovering the work of some of the key poststructuralist theorists for the first time: Jacques Derrida's Of Grammatology had just appeared in translation, as had Roland Barthes' S/Z, Jacques Lacan's Écrits, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's Anti-Oedipus, Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish, and Pierre Macherey's A Theory of Literary Production. English editions of Julia Kristeva's Desire in Language and Jean-François Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition were just around the corner.

      The subsequent theory wars' that raged on campuses in the 1980s are now generally seen as a thing of the past: poststructuralism is now, largely, a familiar and widely taught part of the academic landscape in the English-speaking world.

      Of all the poststructuralists, Roland Barthes (191580) is probably the most widely read. Mythologies has sold hundreds of thous

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