Untying the Text: A Post-Structuralist Reader

by Robert J.C. Young (editor)

Untying the Text

Genres: Philosophy

Paperback

First published January 1, 1981

About the author

Robert J. C. Young FBA (D.Phil, Exeter College, Oxford; born 1950) is a postcolonial theorist, cultural critic, and historian. He is Julius Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature at New York University, and was Dean of Arts & Humanities at NYU Abu Dhabi, 2015–2018. Previously he was Professor of English and Critical Theory and a fellow of Wadham College, Oxford University, where he was one of the founding editors of the Oxford Literary Review as a grad student. He is currently President of the AILC/ICLA Research Committee on Literary Theory.

Reviews

[Ştefania Butnaru]

"Theory of the Text" by Roland Barthes was very helpful

[Steve]

Pierre Macherey and Etienne Balibar, "On Literature as Ideological Form", in Robert Young (ed.), Untying the Text, London, 1981