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Descent into discourse : the reification of language and the writing of social history

Bryan D. Palmer (Author)
Focusing on the ways in which literary or critical theory is being promoted within the field of social history, this book argues that the reliance on poststructuralism with its reification of discourse and avoidance of the structures of oppression and struggles of resistance obscures the origins and consequences of historical events and processes

Print Book, English, 1990
Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1990