{"product_id":"reading-theory-isbn-9780631182894","title":"Reading Theory","description":"'Deconstruction', 'psychoanalysis', and 'semiotics' have become part of the vocabulary of contempoorary culture. \u003ci\u003eReading Theory\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cd\u003e\u003c\/d\u003eintroduces 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.   \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eWorks carefully through key texts by the leading contemporary theorists  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eClear, accessible and introductory  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChallenges recent attacks on theory and on Derrida. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e  List of Plates. \u003cp\u003ePreface.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Abbreviations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Theoretical Beginnings: Introductions to Lacan, Derrida and Kristeva.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Ecrits: A Selection.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Of Grammatology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Revolution in Poetic Language.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Reading Paintings.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix I: Lacan's Use of Freud's German Terms.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix II: Derrida's Abbreviated Citations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix III: Some Kristevan Terms.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"[Shows] perception and originality.\" \u003ci\u003eJulia Kristeva\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"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\". \u003ci\u003eJames R. Bennett, University of Arkansas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eMichael Payne\u003c\/b\u003e is John P. Crozer Professor and Heaad of English at Bucknell University, Pennsylvania. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eIrony in Shakespeare's Roman Plays\u003c\/i\u003e and the editor of several volumes of criticism and theory, including the forthcoming \u003ci\u003eBlackwell Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory\u003c\/i\u003e.  \"Deconstruction,\" \"psychoanalysis,\" and \"semiotics\" have becoem part of the vocabulary of contempoarry culture. Reading Theory introduces the principal texts by Lacan, Derrida, and Kristeva that lie behind these terms and that provide their contexts. This book concentrates its attention on making accessiblw what these three theorists have written, rather than offering a synthetin abstraction of the fashionable terminology of theory.  \u003cp\u003eIn addition to these detailed readings Michael Payne examines and introduces the manifestos of each writer, their \"readings\" of paintings, and provides a systematic response to their critics.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989918892261,"sku":"NP9780631182894","price":40.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631182894.jpg?v=1761785907","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/reading-theory-isbn-9780631182894","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}