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Reading Theory

An Introduction to Lacan, Derrida and Kristeva

Michael Payne author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Published:6th May '93

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'Deconstruction', 'psychoanalysis', and 'semiotics' have become part of the vocabulary of contempoorary culture. Reading Theory introduces the principal texts by Derrida, Lacan and Kristeva that are behind these terms and that provide their contexts. This book concentrates its attention on making accessible what these three theorists have written, rather than offering a synthetic construction of the fashionable terminology of theory.

  • Works carefully through key texts by the leading contemporary theorists
  • Clear, accessible and introductory
  • Challenges recent attacks on theory and on Derrida.

"[Shows] perception and originality." Julia Kristeva

"By intensive reading clarified by historical and intertexual contexts of each of the authors, he achieves a series of brilliant explications".... I have never read a more lucid explanation of these ideas". James R. Bennett, University of Arkansas

ISBN: 9780631182894

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm

Weight: 399g

264 pages