With contributions by David Bleich, Jonathan Culler, Stanley Fish, Walker Gibson, Norman N. Holland, Wolfgang Iser, Walter Benn Michaels, Georges Poulet, Gerald Prince, and Michael Riffaterre.

Central to any understanding of the significance of material objects, whether contemporary or prehistoric, is a discussion of the very nature of interpretation itself: how we 'read' artifacts and inscribe them into the present. This book examines the complex relations between material culture, social structures and social practices from structuralist, hermeneutical and post-st...(展开全部)

This book gives access to a richer and more extensive intellectual past than is common in many jurisprudence textbooks. As is intended ... it will expand the readers sense of the diversity of the past, of the struggle of some of the worlds greatest minds to make sense of the human condition in their times ... The book is a powerful confirmation that legal and political theory c...(展开全部)

Marxist criticism in the 1930s -- The "new criticism" -- The Chicago school -- The New York intellectuals -- Myth criticism -- Phenomenological and existential criticism -- Hermeneutics -- Reader-response criticism -- Literary structuralism and semiotics -- Deconstructive criticism -- Feminist criticism -- Black aesthetics -- Leftist criticism from the 1960s to the 1980s.

Structuralism began in linguistics and was enlarged by Claude Levi-Strauss into a new way of thinking that views our world as consisting of relationships between structures we create rather than of objective realities. The Age of Structuralism examines the work of seven writers who either expanded upon or reacted against Levi-Strauss. In a panoramic overview of the origins of d...(展开全部)

The act of translation, Tejaswini Niranjana maintains, is a political action. Niranjana draws on Benjamin, Derrida, and de Man to show that translation has long been a site for perpetuating the unequal power relations among people, races, and languages. The traditional view of translation underwritten by Western philosophy helped colonialism to construct the exotic 'other' as u...(展开全部)