Author : Peter Stallybrass
Release : 1986
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 829/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Politics and Poetics of Transgression by : Peter Stallybrass
Download or read book The Politics and Poetics of Transgression written by Peter Stallybrass. This book was released on 1986. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applying the insights of Mikhail Bakhtin and recent French critical theorists to the concept of hierarchies in Western society, Stallybrass and White explore the symbolic polarities of the exalted and the base. The authors compare high and low discourse in a variety of domains, and discover that, in every case, the polarities structure and depend upon each other and, in certain instances, interpenetrate to produce political change. -- Molyblog.