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What can we currently make of the subject'? Under the sway of structuralism and poststructuralism, critical thinking took a distinctly negative turn, effectively disqualifying any form of subjectivity as a reference point in discussions of textual or literary meaning. Since the mid-1970s, however, throughout the human sciences, human agency has been restored as both a methodological principle and an ethical value: a phenomenon broadly designated as the return of the subject'. Yet the returning subject bears the traces of its problematization... The present collection of essays explores the ways in which the subject now matters', both in principle and in the variety of critical approaches in authorizes. Essays, which are both literary and theoretical in character, cover authors, texts and issues in French literature from Descartes to the present. A wide range of types of writing is examined, from established forms such as the novel to relatively marginal and generically unsystematized discursive practices such as automatic writing and the récit de rêve'. Though it shuns closure' in a matter which remains ultimately elusive, this book offers some account of the types of answer w

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Author

Paul Gifford, Johnnie Gratton

Publisher

Rodopi Bv Editions

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9789042006300

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, Literary Criticism, Science