Post-Structuralist Joyce. Essays from the French. Derek.
For more post-structuralist studies of Joyce’s work, a good place to start is Post-structuralist Joyce (1984), a collection of essays edited by Derek Attridge and Daniel Ferrier. Social and political approaches. The 1980s and ’90s saw the publication of several books on the relationship between Joyce’s writing and social-political issues.
Moving from Structuralism to Post-Structuralism - As the North American intellectual society developed over the 1950s, by growing more rigidly scientific and managerial in its modes of thought and intellect, a more ambitious form of critical approach seemed demanded which was the structural one.
Because post-structuralism chiefly evolved out of a critique of particular structuralist assumptions, it is first necessary to outline their shared foundation in Saussurean linguistics. This is where a central post-structuralist development occurs which departs from the initial structuralist position.
Poststructuralism got its start in a convoluted sort of way. In the 1950s and '60s, radical new work in linguistics was inspiring a whole slew of French thinkers to re-imagine their own disciplines. Psychoanalysis and philosophy started to go through major upheavals, and their little buddies lit studies and sociology didn't want to be left on the sidelines.
This collection of original, cohesive and concise essays charts the vital contextual backgrounds to Joyce's life and writing. The volume begins with a chronology of Joyce's publishing history, an analysis of his various biographies and a study of his many published and unpublished letters.
Post-Structuralism is a late 20th Century movement in philosophy and literary criticism, which is difficult to summarize but which generally defines itself in its opposition to the popular Structuralism movement which preceded it in 1950s and 1960s France. It is closely related to Post-Modernism, although the two concepts are not synonymous. In the Post-Structuralist approach to textual.
Whereas post-structuralism has become something of a catch-all with reference to French intellectualism, leading to disagreement about whose work should be included within its confines, its effects have been far-reaching. Post-modernism in some respects has drawn upon post-structuralism (Boyne and Ratansi, 1990:10). It became.