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Combines an acute survey of structuralist literary criticism with an argument about how English and American criticism might benefit from its lessons..
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This collection of essays by and about the major Russian theorists includes Boris M. Èjxenbaum's "The Theory of the Formal Method," Viktor Sklovskij's "The Mystery Novel: Dickens's Little Dorrit," Roman Jakobson's "On Realism in Art," Mixail Baxtin's "Discourse Typology in Prose," and Osip M. Brik's "Contributions to the Study of Verse Language." Investigating the relationship of form and structure to the production of meaning in literature, these theorists laid the groundwork for the development of literary theory as a scientific discipline. A new introduction by Gerald L. Bruns provides a context for understanding why these works remain as important and influential now as when they were first written..
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At a 1966 international symposium hosted by the Johns Hopkins University, many of the leading figures of European structuralist criticism first presented their ideas to the American academic community. The proceedings of this event -- which proved epoch-making on both sides of the Atlantic -- were first published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in 1970 and are now available once again, with a reflective new preface by editor and symposium convener Richard Macksey.

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Macroeconomics is in disarray No one approach is dominant, and an increasing divide between theory and empirics is evident.

This book presents both a critique of mainstream macroeconomics from a structuralist perspective and an exposition of modern structuralist approaches. The fundamental assumption of structuralism is that it is impossible to understand a macroeconomy without understanding its major institutions and distributive relationships across productive sectors and social groups.

Lance Taylor focuses his critique on mainstream monetarist, new classical, new Keynesian, and growth models. He examines them from a historical perspective, tracing monetarism from its eighteenth-century roots and comparing current monetarist and new classical models with those of the post-Wicksellian, pre-Keynesian generation of macroeconomists. He contrasts the new Keynesian vision with Keynes's General Theory, and analyzes contemporary growth theories against long traditions of thought about economic development and structural change.

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The recent spread of 'structuralist' writing has been hailed as the dawn of a new age and condemned as an intellectual disaster but, like all fashionable diseases, it is more talked about than understood Edmund Leach's new book is designed for the use if teaching undergraduates in anthropology, linguistics, literary studies, philosophy and related disciplines faced for the first time with structuralist argument; it provides the prolegomena necessary to understand the final chapter of Levi-Strauss's massive four-volume Mythologiques. The objective is complex, the manner simple. Some prior knowledge of anthropological literature is useful but not essential; the principal ethnographic source is the Book of Leviticus; this guide should help anyone who is trying to grasp the essentials of 'seminology' - the general theory of how signs and symbols come to convey meaning. Although, in essence, a textbook, substantial portions of the argument are here presented for the first time; thus Section 16 contains an innovating contribution to general incest theory, and the analysis of the logic of animal sacrifice presented in Section 18 is an advance on anything previous published on this theme. The author's core thesis is that: 'the indices in non-verbal communication systems, like the sound elements in spoken language, do not have meaning as isolates, but only as members of set'; the book's special merit is that it makes this kind of jargon comprehensible in terms of our everyday experience..
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Post-structuralist Geography is a highly accessible introduction to post-structuralist theory that critically assesses how post-structuralism can be used to study space and place.

Key Features

• Offers a thorough appraisal of the work of key post-structuralist thinkers, including Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, and Bruno Latour
• Provides case studies to elucidate, illustrate, and apply the theory 
• Presents boxed summaries of complex arguments which - with the engaging writing style - provide a clear overview of post-structuralist approaches to the study of space and place

Comprehensive and comprehensible - communicating a new and exciting agenda for human geography -Post-structuralist Geographyis the students’ essential guide to the theoretical literature.

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Lance Taylor uses structuralist models to examine the issues of short-term fluctuations and long-term growth in developing economies..
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