From Library Journal
Excerpted from the French journal Tel Quel (1960-82) and ably translated by two lecturers in French at University College, London, these articles demonstrate French poststructuralist radical literary theory as practiced in France during the 1960s and 1970s by some of its major proponents, e.g., Julia Kristeva, Michel Foucault, Philippe Sollers, Marc Devade, Marcelin Pleynet, and Roland Barthes. The articles explore literature and culture, gender, film, semiotics, and psychoanalysis. Critics have detected a progressive movement in the journal itself from literature tel quel, "such as it is," toward the avant-garde and toward a scientific analysis of literature. The translators group the articles under three major headings?Science, Literature, and Art?but several of the articles defy this classification. Marcel Pleynet's article, "Thetic `Madness,' " for example, deals primarily with religion as it relates to art. This reader will prove extremely valuable to structuralist and post-structuralist literature scholars but will have little appeal to broader audiences.?Robert T. Ivey, Univ. of Memphis
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Kurzbeschreibung
The work of the French literary review, intellectual grouping and publishing team, "Tel Quel", had a profound impact on literary and cultural debate in the 1960s and 1970s. From its beginning in 1960 to its closure in 1982, it published some of the key essays of major poststructuralist thinkers from Roland Barthes to Michel Foucault and Julia Kristeva. This work presents English translations of essays written by members of the "Tel Quel" group such as Michel Foucault and Julia Kristeva (a member of the editorial board) plus an interview with Roland Barthes. It aims to provide an insight into the poststructuralist movement and to present some of the pioneering essays on literature and culture, film, semiotics and psychoanalysis.
