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Towards a new literary humanism
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ISBN: 9780230238152 0230238157 Year: 2011 Publisher: Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan,

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Literature cultivates 'deep selves' for whom books matter because they take over from religion fundamental questions about the meaning of existence. This volume embraces and questions this perspective, whilst also developing a 'new humanist' critical vocabulary which specifies, and therefore opens to debate, the human significance of literature.

L'oeuvre et son ombre : que peut la littérature secondaire?
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ISBN: 2877064476 9782877064477 Year: 2002 Publisher: Paris Ed. de Fallois

Modern critical theory : a phenomenological introduction
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ISBN: 9024716977 9401016445 9789024716975 Year: 1975 Publisher: The Hague Nijhoff


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Intertextualität : eine Einführung
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ISBN: 9783503137589 3503137580 Year: 2013 Volume: 53 Publisher: Berlin : E. Schmidt,


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Re-thinking theory : a critique of contemporary literary theory and an alternative account
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ISBN: 0521380359 Year: 1992 Publisher: Cambridge [England] New York Oakleigh Cambridge University Press


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The perverse art of reading : on the phantasmatic semiology in Roland Barthes' Cour au College de France
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ISBN: 9789042030923 9042030925 9789042030930 9042030933 1282792946 9786612792946 9781282792944 6612792949 Year: 2010 Volume: 353 Publisher: Amsterdam : Rodopi,

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‘I sincerely believe that at the origin of teaching such as this we must always locate a fantasy’. This provoking remark was the starting point of the four lecture courses Roland Barthes taught as professor of literary semiology at the Collège de France . In these last years of his life, Barthes developed a perverse reading theory in which the demonic stupidity of the fantasy becomes an active force in the creation of new ways of thinking and feeling. The perverse art of reading offers the first extensive monograph on these lecture courses. The first part examines the psychoanalytical and philosophical intertexts of Barthes’ ‘active semiology’ (Lacan, Kristeva, Winnicott, Nietzsche, Deleuze and Foucault), while the second part discusses his growing attention for the intimate, bodily involvement in the act of reading. Subsequently, this study shows how Barthes’ phantasmatic reading strategy radically reviews the notions of space, detail and the untimely in fiction, as well as the figure of the author and his own role as a teacher. It becomes clear that the interest of Barthes’ lecture courses goes well beyond semiology and literary criticism, searching the answer to the ethical question par excellence: how to become what one is, how to live a good life.

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