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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080149690X
• ISBN13: 9780801496905
• Release Date: November 1989
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher