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| ISBN: | 9781400849598
1400849594
0691118728
9780691118727
9780691126180
0691126186
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-212) and index.
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| Summary: | The Shape of the Signifier is a critique of recent theory--primarily literary but also cultural and political. Bringing together previously unconnected strands of Michaels's thought--from ""Against Theory"" to Our America--it anatomizes what's fundamentally at stake when we think of literature in terms of the experience of the reader rather than the intention of the author, and when we substitute the question of who people are for the question of what they believe. With signature virtuosity, Michaels shows how the replacement of ideological difference (we believe diff.
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| Other form: | Print version: Michaels, Walter Benn. Shape of the signifier 0691118728
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