Reading Theory: An Introduction to Lacan, Derrida and Kristeva

By Michael Payne

Book Overview

'Deconstruction', 'psychoanalysis', and 'semiotics' have become part of the vocabulary of contempoorary culture. Reading Theory introduces the principal texts by Derrida, Lacan and Kristeva that are behind these terms and that provide their contexts. This book concentrates its attention on making accessible what these three theorists have written, rather than offering a synthetic construction of the fashionable terminology of theory. Works carefully through key texts by the leading contemporary theorists Clear, accessible and introductory Challenges recent attacks on theory and on Derrida.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0631182896
• ISBN13: 9780631182894
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

A brilliant "translation" of some heavy theoretical texts.

Mike Payne's book is a godsend to literary theory students. It distills the heavily theoretical works of Lacan, Derrida, and Kristeva, and makes them more easily understandable (if it is possible to truly understand these texts). I had the pleasure of being one of Prof. Payne's students at Bucknell, and I must say that he is as brilliant in class as he is on paper.