Simplifications: An Introduction to Structuralism and Post-structuralismOrient Blackswan, 2001 - 559 pages Simplifications brings to the Indian reader comprehensive overview of Western literary theory of post 1960s. A compendium of the dominant trends of the period, it introduces the reader to the thoughts and the ideas of important thinkers like Saussure, Lacan, Foucault and Derrida, among others. The book also gives a brief introduction to the post-colonial theory and the questions of politics, quoting extensively from several important thinkers. It encapsulates structuralism, post-structuralism and post-colonialism and is a valuable reference for post-graduate students of literature and the social sciences and anyone who is interested in the subject. |
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Contents
Polemical Introduction 1 | 25 |
Language 1 | 68 |
Literature 1 | 141 |
Brief Interlude with | 196 |
Language and Literature | 207 |
Introduction | 301 |
After Structuralism | 320 |
Politics and our Western Inheritance | 467 |
The PostColonial Condition | 488 |
The Terminal Section | 513 |
Booklist | 522 |
Some Useful Websites on the Internet | 548 |
Common terms and phrases
A.J. Greimas already analysis Anthony Wilden author-function Barthes becomes binary called century Claude Levi-Strauss concept consciousness culture deconstruction Derrida Descartes describe discourse discussion earlier English entities essay example existence fact Foucault Freud function fundamental give Hamlet Heidegger Heidegger's human Ibid ideas identify identity implications important individual interpretation Jacques Derrida Jacques Lacan Jakobson kind knowledge Lacan Levi-Strauss linguistics literary criticism literature logic Martin Heidegger meaning merely metaphor metonymy Michel Foucault mind modern myth narrative nature Neogrammarian notion object ontology organisation perhaps philosophy play political possible post-colonial post-structuralism Prague Linguistic Circle present problem question reading relation relationship remember representation Roland Barthes Saussure Saussure's sciences seen sense sentence sexuality signifier social society sounds structure super-ego Symbolic T.S. Eliot talk theory things thinkers thought traditional truth unconscious understand western words writing