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Patrick Brady Books
Patrick Brady brings over two decades of cycling passion to his extensive editorial work. He has served as a publisher and editor for prominent cycling publications, demonstrating a deep understanding of the sport. His writing explores the multifaceted world of cycling, from the thrill of racing to the meditative journey of touring. Brady's contributions illuminate the culture and lifestyle surrounding cycling, offering readers a unique perspective.
This volume, essentially methodological in orientation, presents a spectrum of French, Russian, and American modes of structuralism. Each approach is extrapolated from a structuralist mode of language theory (Derrida), period style theory (Jakobson, Foucault), information theory (Lotman), linguistics and narratology (Christensen, Ohmann; Barthes, Chatman; Heller and Macris), social anthropology (Lévi-Strauss), psychoanalysis (Lacan), sociology (Goldmann), or archetypology (Durand). Each is situated in relation to earlier work in each of these fields and then demonstrated and tested by means of concrete application to the analysis of two paradigmatic but profoundly different narrative texts of the rococo period: Prévost's Manon Lescaut (1731) and Marivaux's La Vie de Marianne (1731-41). While the main concern is thus a critical examination of the most controversial modern critical perspectives, the study also proposes the first elements of a comprehensive new theory of the rococo.