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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... Sacred Discontent , Schneidau brings into subtle and illuminating synthesis results from biblical archaeology , contemporary anthropology , his- tory , and literary criticism and argues Derrida's indebtedness to the Yahwist vision ...
... Sacred Discontent , Schneidau brings into subtle and illuminating synthesis results from biblical archaeology , contemporary anthropology , his- tory , and literary criticism and argues Derrida's indebtedness to the Yahwist vision ...
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... sacred discontent " of the biblical ( or at least Yahwist ) vision , as I suggested earlier . Leitch's error concerning deconstruction and nihilism may be taken as a synecdoche of other apparent confusions in the essay . To see Miller ...
... sacred discontent " of the biblical ( or at least Yahwist ) vision , as I suggested earlier . Leitch's error concerning deconstruction and nihilism may be taken as a synecdoche of other apparent confusions in the essay . To see Miller ...
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... Sacred Discontent : The Bible and Western Tradition ( Baton Rouge : Louisiana State Univ . Press , 1976 ) . 31. Miller , " Tradition and Difference , " pp . 6 , 12 . 32. Nietzsche , The Will to Power , ed . Walter Kaufmann , trans ...
... Sacred Discontent : The Bible and Western Tradition ( Baton Rouge : Louisiana State Univ . Press , 1976 ) . 31. Miller , " Tradition and Difference , " pp . 6 , 12 . 32. Nietzsche , The Will to Power , ed . Walter Kaufmann , trans ...
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Derridean | 15 |
Dehellenizing Literary Criticism | 34 |
The Recent | 49 |
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