A Critical and Cultural Theory Reader

292 Pages·1992·39.359 MB·English

by  Antony Easthope, Kate McGowan

A
CRITICAL
AND CULTURAL
THEORY
READER
Edited by Antony Easthope
McGowan
and Kate

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A
CRITICAL
AND CULTURAL
THEORY READER

A
CRITICAL
AND CULTURAL
THEORY READER
edited by
Antony Easthope and
Kate McGowan
University of Toronto Press
Toronto and Buffalo
First published in North America in 1992 by
University of Toronto Press
Toronto and Buffalo
ISBN 0-8020-7416-2 (cloth)
ISBN 0-8020-2912-4 (paper)
Copyright © Antony Easthope and Kate McGowan 1992
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be
reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted
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Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data
Main entry under title:
A critical and cultural theory reader
ISBN 0-8020-7416-2 (bound) ISBN 0-8020-2912-4 (pbk.)
1. Popular culture. 2. Criticism. 3. Culture.
4. Structuralism (Literary analysis). I. Easthope,
Antony. II. McGowan, Kate.
PN81.C75 1992 801'.95 C92-094197-4
Printed and bound in Great Britain
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements VII
Introduction 1
SECTION 1 SEMIOLOGY 5
Introduction 5
1. Ferdinand de Saussure, from Course in General Linguistics 7
1.2 Roland Barthes, from Mythologies 14
1.3 Pierre Macherey, from A Theory ofLiterary Production 21
1.4 Roland Barthes, from SIZ 31
1.5 Colin MacCabe, from 'Realism and the Cinema' 35
SECTION 2 IDEOLOGY 41
Introduction 41
2.1 Karl Marx, from 'Preface to the Critique' 45
2.2 Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, from The German Ideology 47
2.3 Louis Althusser, from 'Ideology and Ideological State
Apparatuses' 50
2.4 Edward Said, from Orientalism 59
SECTION 3 SUBJECTIVITY 67
Introduction 67
3.1 Jacques Lacan, 'The Mirror Stage' from Merits 71
3.2 Julia Kristeva, from 'The System and the Speaking Subject'
3.3 Michel Foucault, from Discipline and Punish 81
3.4 Michel Foucault, from The History ofSexuality 90
3.5 Roland Barthes, from The Pleasure ofthe Text 96
Vi A CRITICAL AND CULTURAL THEORYREADER
SECTION 4 DIFFERENCE 1 1
4.1 Jacques Derrida, from 'Differance' 108
SECTION 5 GENDER 133
Introduction 133
5.1 Sigmund Freud, 'On the Universal Tendency towards
Debasement in Love' 137
5.2 Helene Cixous, from 'Sorties' 146
5.3 Laura Mulvey, from 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema' 158
5.4 Gayatri Spivak, from 'Displacement and the Discourse
of Woman' 167
SECTION 6 POSTMODERNISM 181
Introduction 181
6.1 Jean-Francois Lyotard, from The Postmodern Condition 184
6.2 Fredric Jameson, from Postmodernism 196
6.3 Jean Baudrillard, from Simulations 203
SECTION 7 DOCUMENTS IN CULTURAL THEORY 207
Introduction 207
7.1 F. R. Leavis, from Mass Civilisation and Minority Culture 209
7.2 Theodore Adorno, from 'On Popular Music' 211
7.3 Raymond Williams, from Culture and Society 224
7.4 Raymond Williams, 'Popular' from Keywords 231
7.5 Tristan Tzara, from 'Memoirs of Dadaism' 233
Summaries 237
Biographies 260
References 263
Index 268