The World, the Text, and the Critic

The World, the Text, and the Critic
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 340
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ISBN-10 : 0674961870
ISBN-13 : 9780674961876
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Download or read book The World, the Text, and the Critic written by Edward W. Said and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Said demonstrates that critical discourse has been strengthened by the writings of Derrida and Foucault and by influences like Marxism, structuralism, linguistics, and psychoanalysis. But, he argues, these forces have compelled literature to meet the requirements of a theory or system, ignoring complex affiliations binding the texts to the world.


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