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In Ideology and Inscription, first published in 2008, Tom Cohen questions the way history, ideology and politics are invoked in contemporary cultural studies. Enlisting the work of three seminal figures in literary theory - Walter Benjamin, Paul de Man, and M. Bakhtin - Cohen argues for a new politics of memory that moves beyond what he sees as our current paralysing preoccupation with the present, and also for a new approach to the reading and analysis of cultural texts that breaks with the mimetic premises of traditional criticism. The book challenges many of the prevailing methodologies and assumptions of the contemporary critical scene and, through analyses of such topics as the rhetoric of science, ecological criticism, and the films of Hitchcock, demonstrates the subtlety and critical power of a more genuinely 'materialist' approach to a wide range of cultural texts.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary theory

• Full title: Ideology and Inscription
• Subtitle: 'Cultural Studies' after Benjamin, De Man, and Bakhtin
• Author: Tom Cohen
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 270
• EAN: 9780521599672
• ISBN: 0521599679
• ID: 02036960
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 325 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. October 1998

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