Discourse/Counter-Discourse : : The Theory and Practice of Symbolic Resistance in Nineteenth-Century France / / Richard Terdiman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Terdiman, Richard,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1989
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Preface --; Introduction: On Symbolic Resistance --; PART ONE. Discourses of Domination --; 1. Discourses of Initiation: On Some Contradictions in Balzac's Encounter with the Sign --; 2. Newspaper Culture: Institutions of Discourse; Discourse of Institutions --; PART TWO. Corrosive Intertextualities --; 3. Counter-Images: Daumier and Le Charivari --; 4. Counter-Humorists: Strategies of Resistance in Marx and Flaubert --; 5. Ideological Voyages: On a Flaubertian Dis-Orient-ation --; PART THREE. Absolute Counter-Discourse --; 6. The Paradoxes of Distinction: The Prose Poem as Prose --; 7. The Dialectics of the Prose Poem --; Bibliography of Critical Works --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501717611; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501717611
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Richard Terdiman.

Discourse/Counter-Discourse is situated on the border between cultural history and literary criticism: combining the insights of Marxism and semiotics, it attempts to delineate the cultural function of texts. Focusing on France during a period of remarkable cultural, social, and political transformation, Richard Terdiman examines both the dominant bourgeois discourse—novels, newspapers, and other mass forms of expression—and the effort of intellectuals to devise counter-discourses to combat it.