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(0)Catherine Belsey
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Very short introductions volume 73
Pub. Date
2022.
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Second edition.
Language
English
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"Poststructuralism challenges traditional ways of thinking about the relations between human beings, culture, and the world. Language and meaning are reappraised, and with them assumptions about what it is possible for us to know. Poststructuralism resists certainties and offers ways to consider our place in the world that compete with conventional explanations. In this [book], [the author] examines key figures such as Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida,...
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English
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This Dover edition contains the unabridged text of Twelfth night as published in volume VI of The Caxton edition of the complete works of William Shakespeare, London, n.d., plus literary analysis and perspectives from MAXnotes for Twelfth Night, published in 1996 by Research & Education Association, Piscataway, New Jersey.
Author
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Very short introductions volume 73
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
"Opening with a disagreement between Lewis Carroll's Alice and Humpty Dumpty over the question of meaning, this Very Short Introduction traces the key arguments that have led postructuralists to challenge traditional theories of language and culture." "While Catherine Belsey discusses such well-known figures as Barthes, Foucault, and Lacan, as well as Kristeva, Lyotard and Zizek, she also draws pertinent examples from literature, art, film, and popular...
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[2014]
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English
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Everyone knows the story of the star-crossed lovers but close attention to the language of the play can deepen and darken the legend. As icons of passion, Romeo and Juliet reveal the recklessness, as well as the idealism, of desire in a violent world. Catherine Belsey shows how you can tease out the play's subtle meanings and goes on to discuss key adaptations, including the classic Baz Lurhmann film.
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