Discourse/Counter-Discourse

By Richard Terdiman

Book Overview

Discourse/Counter-Discourse is situated on the border between cultural history and literary criticism: combining the insights of Marxism and semiotics, it attempts to delineate the cultural function of texts. Focusing on France during a period of remarkable cultural, social, and political transformation, Richard Terdiman examines both the dominant bourgeois discourse--novels, newspapers, and other mass forms of expression--and the effort of intellectuals to devise counter-discourses to combat it.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801417503
• ISBN13: 9780801417504
• Release Date: April 1985
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher