LiteraryCriticismClass#7MichelFoucault.pptVIP

Literary Criticism Class #7 Discourse (1) Briefly, “language as it is used by and within various constituencies (the law, medicine, the church, for example) for purposes to do with power relationships between people.” (Wolfreys 65) Discourse = ideology in action (Dobie 170) Discourse (2) “Human subjectivity and identity itself is produced out of various discursive formations as a result of the subject’s entry into language.” Language is “always already shot through and informed by figurations and encryptions of power . .