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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... texts the working out — and not just hear a discussion of the relationship between writing and reading , between critic and text , between master and slave , and between the declaration a text makes and the description it offers up to a ...
... texts the working out — and not just hear a discussion of the relationship between writing and reading , between critic and text , between master and slave , and between the declaration a text makes and the description it offers up to a ...
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... text . Unlike most other ways of reading , which tend to spatialize texts , deconstruction too traces a temporal movement , expos- ing the text's instability , the temporal impossibility of signifier and signified , of literal and ...
... text . Unlike most other ways of reading , which tend to spatialize texts , deconstruction too traces a temporal movement , expos- ing the text's instability , the temporal impossibility of signifier and signified , of literal and ...
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... texts but are coerced by the texts themselves " ( p . 611 ) . Obviously , Miller wants to challenge Leitch's notion that in deconstruction readings are subject to the interpreter's will . But his " correc- tion " is the flip - side of ...
... texts but are coerced by the texts themselves " ( p . 611 ) . Obviously , Miller wants to challenge Leitch's notion that in deconstruction readings are subject to the interpreter's will . But his " correc- tion " is the flip - side of ...
Contents
Derridean | 15 |
Dehellenizing Literary Criticism | 34 |
The Recent | 49 |
Copyright | |
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