Framing the Sign: Criticism and Its Institutions (Oklahoma Project for Discourse and Theory)

Culler begins with an historical overview of the relationship between criticism and the academy and explores what has come to characterize contemporary theory. Literary Criticism And The American University -- The Humanities Tomorrow -- The Call To History -- Political Criticism: Confrontng Religion -- Empson's Complex Words -- Bachelard's Image -- De Man's Rhetoric -- Deconstruction And The Law -- The Semiotics Of Tourism -- Rubbish Theory -- Havermas And Norms Of Language -- Problems In The Theory Of Fiction -- Towards A Linguistics Of Writing. Jonathan Culler. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.