Introduction to Poststructuralism

Introduction to Poststructuralism

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Major Concepts of Poststructuralism: Some Post-Structural Assumptions (remote)

Representation : Theory and practice are no longer separable.  Theories become more self-reflexive.

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Major Theorists:

Mikhail Bahktin

(Difference between Bahktin and Barthes in their view of referentiality)

Bahktin: The relation between art and reality is defined by chronotope.   Chronotope is the process of assimilating real time and space; it is the historical time and space artistically shaped and expressed in art.

Barthes: In the most realistic novel, the referent has no "reality."  What we called "real" is never more than a code of representation: it is never a code of execution: the novelistic real is not operable.

Roland Barthes

Michelle Foucault

Barthes and Foucault (An Outline by Allison Lin)

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