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Is there a story to tell?

Is there a story to tell? Antony E a s t h o p e , British Post-Structuralism Routledge, 1 9 8 8 ) , xiv + 2 5 5 p p . (London/New York, It used to pass for orthodoxy (though quite whose is difficult to say) that Britain, by the same token as being das Land ohne Musik and the country where to eat decently it was necessary to breakfast three times a day, was a culture supremely resistant t o theory, mistrustful o f nouuelle Continental flourishes and happy with the nourishing Bisto o f its native pragmatism. It would hardly be possible to maintain such a point o f view n o w , not least because the theory to which we were supposed to be so supremely resistant itself no longer exists in the same way as twenty or so years ago. T h a t alone, along with the changing impacts o f structuralist and poststructuralist w o r k on British intellectual life over the period, should m a k e the story o f those years a fascinating one to tell. T h e p r o b l e m -- o n e that http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Paragraph Edinburgh University Press

Is there a story to tell?

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Edinburgh University Press
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© Oxford University Press 1991
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0264-8334
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1750-0176
DOI
10.3366/para.1991.0022
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Antony E a s t h o p e , British Post-Structuralism Routledge, 1 9 8 8 ) , xiv + 2 5 5 p p . (London/New York, It used to pass for orthodoxy (though quite whose is difficult to say) that Britain, by the same token as being das Land ohne Musik and the country where to eat decently it was necessary to breakfast three times a day, was a culture supremely resistant t o theory, mistrustful o f nouuelle Continental flourishes and happy with the nourishing Bisto o f its native pragmatism. It would hardly be possible to maintain such a point o f view n o w , not least because the theory to which we were supposed to be so supremely resistant itself no longer exists in the same way as twenty or so years ago. T h a t alone, along with the changing impacts o f structuralist and poststructuralist w o r k on British intellectual life over the period, should m a k e the story o f those years a fascinating one to tell. T h e p r o b l e m -- o n e that

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