Theory and History of Literature: Discerning the Subject

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Large 8vo. xxxv, 185 (2) pp, The Resistance in Theory by John Mowitt, acknowledgments, preface, note on terminology, 1. Ideology; 2. Text; 3. Deconstruction 4. Resistance; 5. Unconscious; 6. Paranoia; 7. Autobiography; 8. Semiotica; 9. Feminism; 10. Responsibilities; notes, references, index. First Edition, 1988. Wraps. ``This book offers a rigorous, lucid critique of the debates on the status of the 'subject'---debates that take in but range far beyond the political writings of Althusser, the psychoanalytic writings of Lacan, and the philosophical work of Derrida. What begins as a thorough analysis of the ways various disciplines theorize the 'subjec', quickly develops into a provocative consideration of the relations among critical theory, human agency, and social resistance. The author argue that many theorists of the 'subject' routinely deny the possibility of human agency and the 'subject's' resistance to the pressure of the ideological, and rejects many of the currently