The Aims of Representation: Subject/Text/HistoryStanford University Press, 1993 - 280 pages One of the more important and original collections of theoretical essays in the field. . . . The issues it addresses are no less pertinent now than they were in 1987; they seem, indeed, to be of perennial importance. -- Anton Kaes, University of California, Berkeley |
Contents
THE LITERARY THE TEXTUAL | 1 |
JUDICIOUSNESS IN DISPUTE OR KANT | 23 |
NARRATIVE HETEROGENEITY AND THE 69 | 69 |
FOUCAULT POSTSTRUCTURALISM AND | 107 |
DECONSTRUCTION | 131 |
ACTION SUBJECTIVITY AND THE | 159 |
HISTORY APPROPRIATION AND THE USES | 175 |
A PERFORMATIVE ACT | 217 |
CRITICISM TODAY | 235 |
CAPITALIST CULTURE AND THE | 257 |
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