The Tel Quel Reader - Softcover

Lack, Roland-Francois; French, Patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415157145 ISBN 13: 9780415157148

Publisher: Routledge, 1998

Synopsis

The work of the French literary review, intellectual grouping and publishing team Tel Quel had a profound impact on the formation of literary and cultural debate in the 1960s and 70s. Its legacy has had enormous influence on the parameters of such debate today. From its beginning in 1960 to its closure in 1982, it published some of the earliest work of Jacques Derrida, Julia Kristeva, Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes. It was also associated with some of the key ideas of the French avant-garde, publishing key articles by Georges Bataille and Antonin Artaud.
The Tel Quel Reader presents for the first time in English the key essays written by the Tel Quel group. Essays by Julia Kristeva, one of the review's editor's Michel Foucault, and a fascinating interview with Roland Barthes are here made available for the first time in English. It provides a unique insight into the post-structuralist movement and presents some of the pioneering essays on literature and culture, film, semiotics and psychoanalysis.
Assembling key essays from over a twenty-year period, The Tel Quel Reader is an indispensible resource for students of literature, cultural and visual studies, philosophy and French studies.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The Tel Quel Reader presents for the first time in English many of the key essays that played an instrumental role in shaping the contours of literary and cultural debate in the 1960s and 1970s. Tel Quel, a French literary review and intellectual grouping that ran from 1960 to 1982, published some of the key essays of major poststructuralist thinkers from Michel Foucault to Roland Barthes. Julia Kristeva herself was a member of Tel Quel's editorial board. The Tel Quel Reader provides resource for students of literary theory, cultural studies, philosophy and French studies. It will also be essential reading for students of art theory, visual studies and film and anyone studying poststructuralist theory today.

About the Author:

Both Patrick French and Roland-Francois Lack are Lecturers of French at University College London. French is the author of The Time of Theory (1996) and Lack is the author of Poetics of the Pretext (1997).

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0415157145
• ISBN 13: 9780415157148
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 292