Reading Deconstruction, Deconstructive ReadingDeconstruction -- a mode of close reading associated with the contemporary philosopher Jacques Derrida and other members of the ""Yale School""--Is the current critical rage, and is likely to remain so for some time. Reading Deconstruction / Deconstructive Reading offers a unique, informed, and badly needed introduction to this important movement, written by one of its most sensitive and lucid practitioners. More than an introduction, this book makes a significant addition to the current debate in critical theory. G. Douglas Atkins first analyzes and explains deconstruction theory and practi |
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... essay , " The Critic as Host , " Miller makes a direct assault on nihilism , showing how it is not the opposite but ... Leitch's error concerning deconstruction and nihilism may be taken as a synecdoche of other apparent confusions in the ...
... essay , " The Critic as Host , " Miller makes a direct assault on nihilism , showing how it is not the opposite but ... Leitch's error concerning deconstruction and nihilism may be taken as a synecdoche of other apparent confusions in the ...
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... essay . This means , for one thing , that Leitch's essay both affirms and denies its declared argument concerning the possibility of a clear and simple choice be- tween , for instance , rival traditions . " The Lateral Dance " is , then ...
... essay . This means , for one thing , that Leitch's essay both affirms and denies its declared argument concerning the possibility of a clear and simple choice be- tween , for instance , rival traditions . " The Lateral Dance " is , then ...
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... Leitch's hierarchy , retaining the either / or choice , and making the interpreter slave to the text - master , Miller exhibits again the kind of thinking that we found in Leitch's essay . For Miller in this passage the choice is simply ...
... Leitch's hierarchy , retaining the either / or choice , and making the interpreter slave to the text - master , Miller exhibits again the kind of thinking that we found in Leitch's essay . For Miller in this passage the choice is simply ...
Contents
Derridean | 15 |
Dehellenizing Literary Criticism | 34 |
The Recent | 49 |
Copyright | |
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