Challenging Theory Disciplines after Deconstruction

Name: Challenging Theory Disciplines after Deconstruction
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ISBN: 9781840146806

ISBN-10: 184014680X

ISBN-13: 9781840146806

Edition: 1999

Authors: Catherine Burgass

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In Challenging Theory, Catherine Burgass addresses the influence of poststructuralism on literary studies in Britain and America, focusing on the theory of deconstruction as developed by Jacques Derrida. The book redresses some common misinterpretations of Derrida's work relating to the status of metaphysical oppositions and assesses dependent arguments for the 'collapse' of disciplinary boundaries.Part One discusses textual differences and the ways in which these may dissolve and reform according to different cultural contexts. The practical issues associated with teaching literature and literary theory in universities are examined in Part Two, while Part Three highlights some of the more…

Book details

List price: $120.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Limited
Publication date: 12/1/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 188
Size: 6.50" wide x 12.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgements



Opposition and Difference






Mimesis and Metafiction



Literature and Philosophy






Literary Theory and Critical Practice



Literary Studies and Cultural Studies






Reason and Rhetoric



Poetics and Politics


Bibliography


Index