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Deconstruction - Derrida

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  • © 1998
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Authors:
  1. Julian Wolfreys
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  • 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

Part of the book series: Transitions (TRANSs)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction: ‘Deconstruction, if such a thing exists …’

    1. Introduction: ‘Deconstruction, if such a thing exists …’

      • Julian Wolfreys
      Pages 1-18

  3. The Make-Believe of a Beginning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. Another Introduction / Entamer: In Medias Res or, Is There Some Thing Called Deconstruction?

      • Julian Wolfreys
      Pages 21-59

    3. Preparatory to Anything Else: Derrida’s Interests

      • Julian Wolfreys
      Pages 60-116

  4. Preparatory to Anything Else: Singular Examples or, Identity, Spectrality, Undecidability

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117
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    2. Writing (of) Identities: Facing up to Derrida or, the Example of Paul Valéry

      • Julian Wolfreys
      Pages 119-137

    3. The Hauntological Example: The City as the Haunt of Writing in the Texts of Iain Sinclair

      • Julian Wolfreys
      Pages 138-158

    4. Heart? of Darkness? Reading in the Dark with J. Hillis Miller and Joseph Conrad

      • Julian Wolfreys
      Pages 159-181

  5. Some Supplementary Afterword(s)

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183
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    2. Afterword(s): Contrary to the ‘Logic of the Heading’

      • Julian Wolfreys
      Pages 185-192

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 193-240
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About this book

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.

About the author

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.

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