Deconstruction - Derrida

ISBN-13: 9780333687772 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 256 str.

Julian Wolfreys

Opis

This text 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.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

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.