Terry Eagleton's research while affiliated with Minneapolis Business College and other places

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Literary Theory. An Introduction
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January 2008

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... Moving on to poststructuralist radicalism, the concept of difference, instead of being perceived as a property of a differentiating structure which gives identity to the signifierthat is, to be different from another signifier within the structure -, is understood as a catalytic factor of suspension or even definitive cancellation of any identity. Contrary to the structuralist conception that accepts difference as result of the operation of a structure, poststructuralism perceives difference as positive and infinite, before any function or knowledge, outside any concept of structure, at the exteriority of language [10]. Lined up to this perspective, psychoanalysis recognizes the structural resemblance between unconscious and language and finds that the subject is devastated by the radical lack within it, so that any attempt to construct an identity cannot but fail [32]. ...

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The Concept of Difference in Architecture: Transpositions between Insides and Outsides
Literary Theory. An Introduction
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  • January 2008