Deconstruction: A Critique

This collection of essays examines a wide range of topics relating to deconstruction, which emerged in France as a reaction to structuralism but has found its greatest response in America, where literary critics have built on its basic assumptions to create a new critical movement.

Inhalt
From theory to thematics - the ideological underside of recent theory, Murray Krieger; construing and deconstructing, M.H.Abrams; the new criticism and deconstruction - attitudes to language and literature, Rajnath; Samuel Johnson among the deconstructionists, Jean H.Hagstrum; philosophy, theory and the "Contest of Faculties" - saving deconstruction from the pragmatists, Christopher Norris; the Marxism deconstruction debate in literary theory, Michael Ryan; deconstructive philosophy and imaginal psychology - comparative perspectives on Jacques Derrida and James Hillman, Michael Vannoy Adams; deconstruction and American poetry - Williams and Stevens, Rajeev Patke; the anxiety of American deconstruction, Howard Felperin; the post-turn turn - Derrida, Gadamer and the remystification of language, Leonard Orr; "Setzung" and "Ubersetzung" - notes on Paul de Man, Rodolphe Gasche; the lateral dance - the deconstructive criticism of J.Hillis Miller, Vincent B.Leitch; Hartman and Derrida, Jonathan Culler.