TY - BOOK AU - Belsey,Catherine TI - Critical practice T2 - New accents SN - 0415280052 (hbk) U1 - 801.95 21 PY - 2002/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Criticism N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-158) and index; COVER PAGE TITLE PAGE COPYRIGHT PAGE GENERAL EDITOR’S PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION 1. TRADITIONAL CRITICISM AND COMMON SENSE COMMONSENSE CRITICISM THE NEW THEORIES OPACITY THE PROJECT EXPRESSIVE REALISM 2. CHALLENGES TO EXPRESSIVE REALISM NEW CRITICISM NORTHROP FRYE READER-POWER 3. CRITICISM AND MEANING POST-SAUSSUREAN LINGUISTICS THE CONSTRUCTION OF MEANING THE PLURALITY OF MEANING A NEW CRITICAL PRACTICE 4. ADDRESSING THE SUBJECT IDEOLOGY THE SUBJECT PSYCHOANALYSIS RESISTANCE DESIRE LITERATURE THE SUBJECT AND THE TEXT 5. THE INTERROGATIVE TEXT THE SPLIT SUBJECT UNFIXING THE SUBJECT 6. THE WORK OF READING BARTHES AND MACHEREY SHERLOCK HOLMES ‘THE SCHOLAR-GIPSY’ 7. DECONSTRUCTION AND THE DIFFERANCE IT MAKES SAUSSURE REVISITED DECONSTRUCTION DIFFERANCE UNDECIDABILITY ‘EASTER 1916’ THE VERDICT OF HISTORY THE LAW OF THE DECISION 8. TOWARDS A PRODUCTIVE CRITICAL PRACTICE READERS AS CONSUMERS THE ‘COPERNICAN’ REVOLUTION PRODUCING THE TEXT THE PROBLEMS FURTHER READING ACCESSIBLE LANGUAGE IDEOLOGY LITERATURE, CULTURE PSYCHOANALYSIS DECONSTRUCTION NOTES NOTES TO CHAPTER 2 NOTE TO CHAPTER 3 NOTES TO CHAPTER 4 NOTES TO CHAPTER 5 NOTES TO CHAPTER 6 NOTE TO CHAPTER 7 NOTES TO CHAPTER 8 REFERENCES N2 - What is poststructuralist theory, and what difference does it make to literary criticism? Where do we find the meaning of the text: in the author's head? in the reader's? Or do we, instead, make meaning in the practice of reading itself? If so, what part do our own values play in the process of interpretation? And what is the role of the text? Catherine Belsey considers these and other questions concerning the relations between human beings and language, readers and texts, writing and cultural politics. Assuming no prior knowledge of poststructuralism, Critical Practice guides the reader confidently through the maze of contemporary theory. It simply and lucidly explains the views of key figures such as Louis Althusser, Roland Barthes, Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida, and shows their theories at work in readings of familiar literary texts. Critical Practice argues that theory matters, because it makes a difference to what we do when we read, opening up new possibilities for literary and cultural analysis. Poststructuralism, in conjunction with psychoanalysis and deconstruction, makes radical change to the way we read both a priority and a possibility. With a new chapter, updated guidance on further reading and revisions throughout, this second edition of Critical Practice is the ideal guide to the present and future of literary studies UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0650/2002068249-d.html ER -