The Shape of the Signifier: 1967 to the End of History

by Walter Benn Michaels

Book Overview

The Shape of the Signifier is a critique of recent theory--primarily literary but also cultural and political. Bringing together previously unconnected strands of Michaels's thought--from "Against Theory" to Our America--it anatomizes what's fundamentally at stake when we think of literature in terms of the experience of the reader rather than the intention of the author, and when we substitute the question of who people are for the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691126186
• ISBN13: 9780691126180
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.2"