Crossing Borders: Reception Theory, Poststructuralism, Deconstruction - Couverture rigide

Holub, Robert C.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0299132706 ISBN 13 : 9780299132705

Editeur : University of Wisconsin Press, 1992

Synopsis

"Crossing Borders" explores the question of what happens to theory when it literally crosses borders from one culture to another. The author investigates the histories of reception theory, poststructuralism and deconstruction in postwar Germany and the United States. He looks at how imported theories assume a place in the political discourse of a country, and how indigenous intellectual traditions and prejudices affect, modify, or even distort foreign theories. Holub addresses many questions and demonstrates the extent to which theoretical work needs to be understood in cultural, intellectual and institutional contexts. He argues that the praxis of theories is determined not only by their content and style, but also by the environment in which they must function. The success of the transplanted theory, he contends, is due less to its inherent merits than to the hospitability of the environment onto which it is grafted.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Robert C. Holub is chair of the German Department at the University of California, Berkeley.  He is the author of Reception Theory: A Critical Introduction and several other books.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Wisconsin Press
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0299132706
• ISBN 13: 9780299132705
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible