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  Preface: Voloshinov went to the root of Freud’s theory and method, arguing that what is for him the central concept of psychoanalysi...

With murky historical origins, the lettre de cache (often mistakenly glossed as “poison-pen letters’) were letters addressed to the ki...

The author is a modern figure, a product of our society insofar as, emerging from the Middle Ages with English empiricism, French r...

Claude Levi-Strauss contended that  “if there is a meaning to be found in mythology, it cannot reside in the isolated elements which ente...

from Against Interpretation (1964) Of course, I don’t mean interpretation in the broadest sense in which Nietzsche (rightly) says, “T...

from the editor of The Critical Tradition' s introduction to "The Elevation of  the Historicality of Understanding to the St...

1912-1991 “The Archetypes of Literature”, Kenyon Review (vol. 8, 1951) ‘ground plan of a systematic and comprehensive development of c...