Theorising Textual Subjects - Agency and Oppression

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This book addresses the central crisis in critical theory today: the attempts to theorise the subject as both a construct of discourse and a dialogical agent. Through wide reference to leading political! philosophical! and critical thinkers! Meili Steele maps new ways of confronting the problem of how politics and ethics are deployed in imaginative narratives. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Authors: Meili Steele, Meili (University of South Carolina) Steele
• Assisted by: Anthony Cascardi (Editor), Richard Macksey (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.1997
• EAN: 9780521576796
• ISBN: 978-0-521-57679-6
• No. of pages: 234
• Series: Literature, Culture, Theory
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies