Discourse / counter-discourse : the theory and practice of symbolic resistance in nineteenth-century France / Richard Terdiman
1985, First Edition. Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #386213
ISBN: 0801417503
Physical description: 362 p. ; 23 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: On Symbolic Resistance -- PART ONE. Discourses of Domination -- 1. Discourses of Initiation: On Some Contradictions in Balzac's Encounter with the Sign -- 2. Newspaper Culture: Institutions of Discourse; Discourse of Institutions -- PART TWO. Corrosive Intertextualities -- 3. Counter-Images: Daumier and Le Charivari -- 4. Counter-Humorists: Strategies of Resistance in Marx and Flaubert -- 5. Ideological Voyages: On a Flaubertian Dis-Orient-ation -- PART THREE. Absolute Counter-Discourse -- 6. The Paradoxes of Distinction: The Prose Poem as Prose -- 7. The Dialectics of the Prose Poem -- Bibliography of Critical Works -- Index.Subjects: French literature 19th century.
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