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Literary Studies Deconstructed

Author : Catherine Butler
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319904752
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Literary Studies Deconstructed written by Catherine Butler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Studies Deconstructed critiques the state of Literary Studies in the modern university and argues for its comprehensive reconstruction. It argues that Literary Studies as currently practised avoids engaging with much of literary experience and prioritises instead the needs of critics as a professional community: to teach and assess students, to demonstrate the creation of knowledge, and to meet the demands of governments, funders and other bodies. The result is that many areas centrally important to lay readers are largely omitted from critical discussion. Moreover, critical writing and its conventions are framed so as to mask and repress the subject’s contradictions. This lively and provocative book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students with an interest in the critical profession or literary theory, as well as to Literary Studies academics.

Deconstruction

Author : Jonathan D. Culler
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415247085
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Deconstruction written by Jonathan D. Culler and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It could be argued that deconstruction has to a considerable extent been formed by critical accounts of it. This collection reprints a cross section of these important works, charting the ways in which deconstruction is conceptualized and demonstrating the impact it has had on a wide range of traditions. The essential pieces in this set include writings by Jacques Derrida, Jonathan Culler, Paul de Man, Barbara Johnson, and a wide range of key thinkers in areas as diverse as psychoanalysis, law, gender studies, and architecture. The major themes covered include: * Vol. 1: Part I: "What is Deconstruction?"Part II: "Philosophy"* Vol. 2: Part III: "Literary Criticism"Part IV: "Feminism and Queer Theory"* Vol. 3: Part V: "Psychoanalysis"Part VI: "Religion/Theology"Part VII: "Architecture"* Vol. 4: Part VIII: "Politics"Part IX: "Ethics"

Against Deconstruction

Author : John Martin Ellis
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691014841
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Against Deconstruction written by John Martin Ellis and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The focus of any genuinely new piece of criticism or interpretation must be on the creative act of finding the new, but deconstruction puts the matter the other way around: its emphasis is on debunking the old. But aside from the fact that this program is inherently uninteresting, it is, in fact, not at all clear that it is possible. . . . [T]he naïvetê of the crowd is deconstruction's very starting point, and its subsequent move is as much an emotional as an intellectual leap to a position that feels different as much in the one way as the other. . . ." --From the book

Literary Studies Deconstructed

Author : Catherine Butler
Publisher : Palgrave Pivot
ISBN 13 : 9783319904740
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Literary Studies Deconstructed written by Catherine Butler and published by Palgrave Pivot. This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Studies Deconstructed critiques the state of Literary Studies in the modern university and argues for its comprehensive reconstruction. It argues that Literary Studies as currently practised avoids engaging with much of literary experience and prioritises instead the needs of critics as a professional community: to teach and assess students, to demonstrate the creation of knowledge, and to meet the demands of governments, funders and other bodies. The result is that many areas centrally important to lay readers are largely omitted from critical discussion. Moreover, critical writing and its conventions are framed so as to mask and repress the subject’s contradictions. This lively and provocative book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students with an interest in the critical profession or literary theory, as well as to Literary Studies academics.

Deconstructing the Hero

Author : Margery Hourihan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134761775
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Deconstructing the Hero written by Margery Hourihan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-19 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Childrens Literature is now a recognised area of study, mainly PG but also on undergraduate education courses. Makes literary theory accessible to teachers

Redrawing the Lines

Author : Reed Way Dasenbrock
Publisher : Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816617265
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Redrawing the Lines written by Reed Way Dasenbrock and published by Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible to scholars, students, researchers, and general readers. Rich with historical and cultural value, these works are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The books offered through Minnesota Archive Editions are produced in limited quantities according to customer demand and are available through select distribution partners.

Beyond Deconstruction

Author : Howard Felperin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198128960
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Deconstruction written by Howard Felperin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an account of the swiftly developing discipline of contemporary literary theory, and of its consequences for future literary study.

Deconstruction

Author : Christopher Norris
Publisher : Presbyterian Publishing Corp
ISBN 13 : 0203426762
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Deconstruction written by Christopher Norris and published by Presbyterian Publishing Corp. This book was released on 2002-05-23 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deconstruction: Theory and Practice has been acclaimed as by far the most readable, concise and authoritative guide to this topic. Without oversimplifying or glossing over the challenges, Norris makes deconstruction more accessible to the reader. The volume focuses on the works of Jacques Derrida which caused this seismic shift in critical thought, as well as the work of North American critics Paul de Man, Geoffrey Hartman, J. Hillis Miller and Harold Bloom. In this third, revised edition, Norris builds on his 1991 Afterword with an entirely new Postscript, reflecting upon recent critical debate. The Postscript includes an extensive list of recommended reading, complementing what was already one of the most useful bibliographies available.

Deconstruction

Author : Gregory Jones-Katz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022653619X
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Deconstruction written by Gregory Jones-Katz and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-09-03 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basic story of the rise, reign, and fall of deconstruction as a literary and philosophical groundswell is well known among scholars. In this intellectual history, Gregory Jones-Katz aims to transform the broader understanding of a movement that has been frequently misunderstood, mischaracterized, and left for dead—even as its principles and influence transformed literary studies and a host of other fields in the humanities. ? Deconstruction begins well before Jacques Derrida’s initial American presentation of his deconstructive work in a famed lecture at Johns Hopkins University in 1966 and continues through several decades of theoretic growth and tumult. While much of the subsequent story remains focused, inevitably, on Yale University and the personalities and curriculum that came to be lumped under the “Yale school” umbrella, Deconstruction makes clear how crucial feminism, queer theory, and gender studies also were to the lifeblood of this mode of thought. Ultimately, Jones-Katz shows that deconstruction in the United States—so often caricatured as a French infection—was truly an American phenomenon, rooted in our preexisting political and intellectual tensions, that eventually came to influence unexpected corners of scholarship, politics, and culture.

Theory of Literature

Author : Paul H. Fry
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300183364
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Theory of Literature written by Paul H. Fry and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing his perennially popular course to the page, Yale University Professor Paul H. Fry offers in this welcome book a guided tour of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. At the core of the book's discussion is a series of underlying questions: What is literature, how is it produced, how can it be understood, and what is its purpose? Fry engages with the major themes and strands in twentieth-century literary theory, among them the hermeneutic circle, New Criticism, structuralism, linguistics and literature, Freud and fiction, Jacques Lacan's theories, the postmodern psyche, the political unconscious, New Historicism, the classical feminist tradition, African American criticism, queer theory, and gender performativity. By incorporating philosophical and social perspectives to connect these many trends, the author offers readers a coherent overall context for a deeper and richer reading of literature.

Deconstruction Is/In America

Author : Anselm Haverkamp
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814735185
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Deconstruction Is/In America written by Anselm Haverkamp and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses what impact deconstruction has had on the way we read American culture and how American culture might be itself peculiarly deconstructive. Contains 18 essays by prominent thinkers associated with deconstruction, among them Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, and Avital Ronell. Lacks an index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

An Event, Perhaps

Author : Peter Salmon
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788732839
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (887 download)

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Download or read book An Event, Perhaps written by Peter Salmon and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosopher, film star, father of “post truth”—the real story of Jacques Derrida Who is Jacques Derrida? For some, he is the originator of a relativist philosophy responsible for the contemporary crisis of truth. For the far right, he is one of the architects of Cultural Marxism. To his academic critics, he reduced French philosophy to “little more than an object of ridicule.” For his fans, he is an intellectual rock star who ranged across literature, politics, and linguistics. In An Event, Perhaps, Peter Salmon presents this misunderstood and misappropriated figure as a deeply humane and urgent thinker for our times. Born in Algiers, the young Jackie was always an outsider. Despite his best efforts, he found it difficult to establish himself among the Paris intellectual milieu of the 1960s. However, in 1967, he changed the whole course of philosophy: outlining the central concepts of deconstruction. Immediately, his reputation as a complex and confounding thinker was established. Feted by some, abhorred by others, Derrida had an exhaustive breadth of interests but, as Salmon shows, was moved by a profound desire to understand how we engage with each other. It is a theme explored through Derrida’s intimate relationships with writers such as Althusser, Genet, Lacan, Foucault, Cixous, and Kristeva. Accessible, provocative and beautifully written, An Event, Perhaps will introduce a new readership to the life and work of a philosopher whose influence over the way we think will continue long into the twenty-first century.

Marxism and Deconstruction

Author : Michael Ryan
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421432072
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Marxism and Deconstruction written by Michael Ryan and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1982. Aside from Jacques Derrida's own references to the "possible articulation" between deconstruction and Marxism, the relationship between the two has remained largely unexplored. In Marxism and Deconstruction, Michael Ryan examines that multifaceted relationship but not through a mere comparison of two distinct and inviolable entities. Instead, he looks at both with an eye to identifying their common elements and reweaving them into a new theory of political practice. To accomplish his task, Ryan undertakes a detailed comparison of deconstruction and Marxism, relating deconstruction to the dialectical tradition in philosophy and demonstrating how deconstruction can be used in the critique of ideology. He is a forceful critic of both the politics of deconstruction and the metaphysical aspect of Marxism (as seen from a deconstructionist perspective). Besides offering the first book-length study of Derrida in this context, Ryan makes the first methodic attempt by an American scholar to apply deconstruction to domains beyond literature. He proposes a deconstructive Marxism, one lacking the metaphysical underpinnings of conservative "scientific" Marxist theory and employing deconstructive analysis both for Marxist political criticism and to further current anti-metaphysical developments within Marxism. Marxism and Deconstruction is an innovative and controversial contribution to the fields of literary criticism, philosophy, and political science.

The Yale Critics

Author : Jonathan Arac
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 145290832X
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book The Yale Critics written by Jonathan Arac and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Yale Critics was first published in 1983. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. A heated debate has been raging in North America in recent years over the form and function of literature. At the center of the fray is a group of critics teaching at Yale University—Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, Paul de Man, and J. Hillis Miller—whose work can be described in relation to the deconstructive philosophy practiced by French philosopher Jacques Derrida. For over a decade the Yale Critics have aroused controversy; most often they are considered as a group, to be applauded or attacked, rather than as individuals whose ideas merit critical scrutiny. Here a new generation of scholars attempts for the first time a serious, broad assessment of the Yale group. These essays appraise the Yale Critics by exploring their roots, their individual careers, and the issues they introduce. Wallace Martin's introduction offers a brilliant, compact account of the Yale Critics and of their relation to deconstruction and the deconstruction to two characteristically Anglo-American enterprises; Paul Bove explores the new criticism and Wlad Godzich the reception of Derrida in America. Next come essays giving individual attention to each of the critics: Michael Sprinker on Hartman, Donald Pease on Miller, Stanley Corngold on de Man, and Daniel O'Hara on Bloom. Two essays then illuminate "deconstruction in America" through a return to modern continental philosophy: Donald Marshall on Maurice Blanchot, and Rodolphe Gasche on Martin Heidegger. Finally, Jonathan Arac's afterword brings the volume together and projects a future beyond the Yale Critics. Throughout, the contributors aim to provide a balanced view of a subject that has most often been treated polemically. While useful as an introduction, The Yale Critics also engages in a serious critical reflection on the uses of the humanities in American today.

Literature, Cultural Politics and Counter-Readings

Author : Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000412873
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Literature, Cultural Politics and Counter-Readings written by Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-09 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an attempt at deconstructive counter-reading or at what Jonathan Dollimore called “creative vandalism” (2018) of existing cultural or literary texts. Deconstruction is a much maligned or a much misunderstood word and for many, it usually bears a pejorative ring. While most would flaunt their familiarity with some of its philosophic jargons, for the majority, it is an area to be dismissed as intellectual obscurity or abstruse ‘high theory’. In fact there is a serious dearth of Derrida scholarship because of our collective aversion to Derrida that emanates from our lack of familiarity or engagement with deconstruction theory or with the philosophy of deconstruction. Norm-deviant reading strategies of deconstruction offer fresh insights and rebellious interpretative possibilities. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Deconstruction and the Remainders of Phenomenology

Author : Tilottama Rajan
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804745024
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Deconstruction and the Remainders of Phenomenology written by Tilottama Rajan and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book disentangles two terms that were conflated in the initial Anglo-American appropriation of French theory: deconstruction and poststructuralism. Focusing on Sartre, Derrida, Foucault, and Baudrillard (but also considering Levinas, Blanchot, de Man, and others), it traces the turn from a deconstruction inflected by phenomenology to a poststructuralism formed by the rejection of models based on consciousness in favor of ones based on language and structure. The book provides a wide-ranging and complex genealogy of French theory from the 1940s onward, placing particular emphasis on the largely neglected early work of the theorists involved and on deconstruction's continuing relevance. The author argues that deconstruction is a form of radical, antiscientific modernity: an interdisciplinary reconfiguration of philosophy as it confronted the positivism of the human sciences in the 1960s. By contrast, poststructuralism is a type of postmodern theory inflected by changes in technology and the mode of information. Inasmuch as poststructuralism is founded upon its "constitutive loss" of phenomenology (in Judith Butler's phrase), the author is also concerned with the ways phenomenology (particularly Sartre's forgotten but seminal Being and Nothingness) is remembered, repeated in different ways, and never quite worked through in its theoretical successors. Thus the book also exemplifies a way of reading intellectual history that is not only concerned with the transmission of concepts, but also with the processes of transference, mourning, and disavowal that inform the relationships between bodies of thought.

EPZ Deconstruction and Criticism

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826476920
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (769 download)

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Download or read book EPZ Deconstruction and Criticism written by Harold Bloom and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-12-23 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five essential and challenging essays by leading post-modern theorists on the art and nature of interpretation: Jacques Derrida, Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, Paul de Man, and J. Hillis Miller.