Meili Steele, Steele Meili

Theorising Textual Subjects

Agency and Oppression
Herausgeber: Cascardi, Anthony

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Addresses one of the central crises in critical theory today: how to theorise the subject as both a construct of oppressive discourse and a dialogical agent.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 468g
• ISBN-13: 9780521571852
• ISBN-10: 0521571855
• Artikelnr.: 29338683

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Stories of oppression and appeals to freedom
2. Language, ethics, and subjectivity in the liberal/communitarian debate
3. Theorising narratives of agency and subjection
4. Truth, beauty, and goodness in James's The Ambassadors
5. The subject of democracy in the work of Ralph Ellison
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.