Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Palgrave Macmillan
Book cover

Deconstruction: A Critique

  • Book
  • © 1989

Overview

Editors:
  1. Rajnath

    1. University of Allahabad, India

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 44.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 59.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Introduction

    • Rajnath
    Pages 1-9

  3. From Theory to Thematics: the Ideological Underside of Recent Theory

    • Murray Krieger
    Pages 10-31

  4. Construing and Deconstructing

    • M. H. Abrams
    Pages 32-67

  5. The New Criticism and Deconstruction: Attitudes to Language and Literature

    • Rajnath
    Pages 68-92

  6. Samuel Johnson among the Deconstructionists

    • Jean H. Hagstrum
    Pages 93-104

  7. Philosophy, Theory and the ‘Contest of Faculties’: Saving Deconstruction from the Pragmatists

    • Christopher Norris
    Pages 105-122

  8. The Marxism Deconstruction Debate in Literary Theory

    • Michael Ryan
    Pages 123-137

  9. Deconstructive Philosophy and Imaginal Psychology: Comparative Perspectives on Jacques Derrida and James Hillman

    • Michael Vannoy Adams
    Pages 138-157

  10. Deconstruction and American Poetry: Williams and Stevens

    • Rajeev Patke
    Pages 158-179

  11. The Anxiety of American Deconstruction

    • Howard Felperin
    Pages 180-196

  12. The Post-Turn Turn: Derrida, Gadamer and the Remystification of Language

    • Leonard Orr
    Pages 197-212

  13. Setzung and Übersetzung: Notes on Paul de Man

    • Rodolphe Gasché
    Pages 213-252

  14. The Lateral Dance: The Deconstructive Criticism of J. Hillis Miller

    • Vincent B. Leitch
    Pages 253-270

  15. Hartman and Derrida

    • Jonathan Culler
    Pages 271-277

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 278-281
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Allahabad, India

    Rajnath

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation