Introduces Derrida to the student, without theorising Derrida's work
Challenges received wisdom on deconstruction and assesses its status in literary and cultural theory
A series of readings demonstrate the applications of the theory, showing how students can use what they know
JULIAN WOLFREYS is Associate Professor in the Department of English, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville. He is the author of
Being English: Narratives, Idioms and Performances of National Identity from Coleridge to Trollope and
The Rhetoric of Affirmative Resistances: Dissonant Identities from Carroll to Derrida (also published by Macmillan). He has recently completed a study of representations of London.
Deconstruction*Derrida contests the notion that what Jacques Derrida does can be turned into a theory for literary interpretation. It also questions the idea that there is a critical methodology called deconstruction which can be applied to literary texts in a programmatic fashion. In this introductory study to the work of Jacques Derrida, Julian Wolfreys introduces the reader to a range of Derrida's interests and concerns, while offering readings, informed by Derrida's thought, of canonical and less well-known literary works.|
Deconstruction*Derrida contests the notion that what Jacques Derrida does can be turned into a theory for literary interpretation. It also questions the idea that there is a critical methodology called deconstruction which can be applied to literary texts in a programmatic fashion. In this introductory study to the work of Jacques Derrida, Julian Wolfreys introduces the reader to a range of Derrida's interests and concerns, while offering readings, informed by Derrida's thought, of canonical and less well-known literary works.
Series Preface.- Abbreviations.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- PART 1: THE MAKE-BELIEVE OF A BEGINNING.- Another Introduction/Entamer.- Preparatory to Anything Else: Derrida's Interests.- PART 2: PREPARATORY TO ANYTHING ELSE: SINGULAR EXAMPLES OR, IDENTITY, SPECTRALITY, UNDECIDABILITY.- Writing (of) Identities: Facing up to Derrida or, the example of Paul Valery.- The Hauntological Example: the City as the Haunt of Writing in the Texts of Iain Sinclair.- Heart? of Darkness? Reading in the Dark with J.Hillis Miller and Joseph Conrad.- PART 3: SOME SUPPLEMENTARY AFTERWORD.- Afterword(s): Contrary to the 'Logic of the Heading'.- Annotated Bibliography.- Bibliography.- Index.
In this introductory study to the work of Jacques Derrida, Julian Wolfreys introduces the reader to a range of Derrida's interests and concerns, while offering readings, informed by Derrida's thought, of canonical and less well-known literary works.
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Julian Wolfreys
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Series Preface.- Abbreviations.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- PART 1: THE MAKE-BELIEVE OF A BEGINNING.- Another Introduction/Entamer.- Preparatory to Anything Else: Derrida's Interests.- PART 2: PREPARATORY TO ANYTHING ELSE: SINGULAR EXAMPLES OR, IDENTITY, SPECTRALITY, UNDECIDABILITY.- Writing (of) Identities: Facing up to Derrida or, the example of Paul Valery.- The Hauntological Example: the City as the Haunt of Writing in the Texts of Iain Sinclair.- Heart? of Darkness? Reading in the Dark with J.Hillis Miller and Joseph Conrad.- PART 3: SOME SUPPLEMENTARY AFTERWORD.- Afterword(s): Contrary to the 'Logic of the Heading'.- Annotated Bibliography.- Bibliography.- Index.
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Deconstruction*Derrida contests the notion that what Jacques Derrida does can be turned into a theory for literary interpretation. It also questions the idea that there is a critical methodology called deconstruction which can be applied to literary texts in a programmatic fashion. In this introductory study to the work of Jacques Derrida, Julian Wolfreys introduces the reader to a range of Derrida's interests and concerns, while offering readings, informed by Derrida's thought, of canonical and less well-known literary works.
Introduces Derrida to the student, without theorising Derrida's work
Challenges received wisdom on deconstruction and assesses its status in literary and cultural theory
A series of readings demonstrate the applications of the theory, showing how students can use what they know
