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Culler, Jonathan Dwight was born on October 1, 1944 in Cleveland. Son of Arthur Dwight and Helen Lucille (Simpson) Culler.
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With an emphasis on readers and reading, Jonathan Culler considered deconstruction in terms of the questions raised by psychoanalytic, feminist, and reader-response criticism. On Deconstruction is both an authoritative synthesis of Derrida's thought and an analysis of the often-problematic relationship between his philosophical writings and the work of literary critics. Culler's book is an indispensable guide for anyone interested in understanding modern critical thought. This edition marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first publication of this landmark work and includes a new preface by the author that surveys deconstruction's history since the 1980s and assesses its place within cultural theory today.
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(studies include Faulkner, Lolita, Emma, e. e. cummings, M...)
studies include Faulkner, Lolita, Emma, e. e. cummings, Mad Magazine, trends in German literary semiotics
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Investigates the semiotics of literature, reader-response criticism, and the implications of those aspects of literature emphasised by deconstruction.
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Is academic writing, particularly in the disciplines of literary theory and cultural studies, needlessly obscure? The claim has been widely circulated in the media and subject to passionate debate, but it has not been the subject of serious discussion. Just Being Difficult? provides learned and thoughtful analyses of the claim, of those it targets, and of the entire question of how critical writing relates to its intended publics and to audiences beyond them. In this book, a range of distinguished scholars, including some who have been charged with willful obscurity, argue for the interest and importance of some of the procedures that critics have preferred to charge with obscurity rather than confront in another way. The debate on difficult writing hovers on the edges of all academic writing that seeks to play a role in the public arena. This collection is a much-needed contribution to the discussion.
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Benedict Anderson, professor at Cornell and specialist in Southeast Asian studies, is best known for his book Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (1991). It is no understatement to say that this is one of the most influential books of the last twenty years. Widely read both by social scientists and humanists, it has become an unavoidable document. For people in the humanities, Anderson is particularly interesting because he explores the rise of nationalism in connection with the rise of the novel.
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The primary task of literary theory, Jonathan Culler asserts in the new edition of his classic in this field, is not to illuminate individual literary works but to explain the system of literary signification―the rules and conventions that determine a reader's understanding of a text and that make literary communication possible. In this wide-ranging book, he investigates the possibilities of a semiotics of literature. A new preface places The Pursuit of Signs in the context of major developments in the study of literature since publication of the original Cornell edition in 1981.
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With an emphasis on readers and reading, Jonathan Culler considered deconstruction in terms of the questions raised by psychoanalytic, feminist, and reader-response criticism. On Deconstruction is both an authoritative synthesis of Derrida's thought and an analysis of the often-problematic relation between his philosophical writings and the work of literary critics. Culler's book is an indispensable guide for anyone interested in understanding modern critical thought. This edition marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first publication of this landmark work and includes a new preface by the author that surveys deconstruction's history since the 1980s and assesses its place within cultural theory today.
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In his critically acclaimed introduction to the work of Saussure, the founder of modern linguistics, Jonathan Culler offers a lucid and concise exposition of Saussure's theory of language and an assessment of its place in modern thought. For this newly revised and expanded edition, Culler has made significant additions to his discussion of Saussure's work on anagrams and, most important, to his account of applications of Saussurian thought today in such areas of critical theiry as Marxism, psycho-analysis, and deconstruction.
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What is literary theory? Is there a relationship between literature and culture? These are some of questions addressed by Jonathan Culler in this new edition of his highly popular Very Short Introduction. Culler, an extremely lucid commentator and much admired in the field of literary theory, uses easy-to-grasp examples as he outlines the ideas behind schools of criticism that can otherwise be quite daunting, such as deconstruction, semiotics, and postcolonial theory. He explains "theory" not by describing warring "schools" but by sketching key "moves" that theory has encouraged, and by speaking directly about the implications of theory for thinking about literature, human identity, and the power of language. In this Second Edition, Culler includes much new material, including a discussion of the "death of theory," a look at topics such as trauma theory, ecocriticism, and the link between the theory of narrative and cognitive science, plus a new chapter on "Ethics and Aesthetics." The book also includes updated bibliographies. Shedding light on everything from literature and social identity, to poetry, poetics, and rhetoric, Literary Theory is a welcome guide for all lovers of literature. About the Series: Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of life's most interesting topics. Written by experts for the newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam.
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Culler, Jonathan Dwight was born on October 1, 1944 in Cleveland. Son of Arthur Dwight and Helen Lucille (Simpson) Culler.
Bachelor, Harvard University, 1966. Bachelor of Philosophy, St. John's College, Oxford, England, 1968. Doctor of Philosophy, St. John's College, Oxford, England, 1972.
Fellow Selwyn College Cambridge (England) University, 1969-1974. Fellow Brasenose College, lecturer French Oxford University, 1974-1977. Visiting professor French and comparative literature Yale University, New Haven, 1975.
Professor English and comparative literature Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, since 1977, chair department comparative literature, 1993-1996, since 2004, chairman department English, 1996-1999, senior associate dean, College Arts & Sciences, 2000—2003. Director Society Humanities Cornell University, Ithaca, 1984—1993.
(The primary task of literary theory, Jonathan Culler asse...)
( Is academic writing, particularly in the disciplines of...)
(In his critically acclaimed introduction to the work of S...)
(An introduction to Flaubert that discusses the entire bod...)
(What is literary theory? Is there a relationship between ...)
(Benedict Anderson, professor at Cornell and specialist in...)
( With an emphasis on readers and reading, Jonathan Culle...)
( With an emphasis on readers and reading, Jonathan Culle...)
( With an emphasis on readers and reading, Jonathan Culle...)
(A work of technical skill as well as outstanding literary...)
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(Investigates the semiotics of literature, reader-response...)
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Member of American Council of Learned Societies (board directors since 2005), Modern Language Association (member advisory board publications 1978-1981, executive council 1985-1988, 1990-1991), American Philosophical Society, American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Council Learned Societies, American Comparative Literature Association (vice president 1997-1999, president 1999—2001), Semiotic Society of America (vice president 1987, president 1988).
Married Cynthia Chase, December 27, 1976.