Critical Difference

Essays in the Contemporary Rhetoric of Reading

Häftad, Engelska, 1985

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Beskrivning

Barbara Johnson investigates the significant and illuminating ways in which both literature and criticism are "critically different" from what they purport to be. Her subtle and provocative studies of Balzac, Mallarme, Baudelaire, Apollinaire, Melville, Poe, Barthes, Lacan, Austin, and Derrida take a refreshing new approach to the fundamental questions of meaning, interpretation, and the relationship between literature and criticism. In each of seven essays, a clear, precise, and detailed reading of the rhetoric of one or more literary or critical works reveals the text's fundamental discrepancies, ambiguities, and contradictions. If rhetoric is seen as language's capacity to differ from literal statement, and if "to differ" can also mean "to disagree, " then the reading of the rhetoric of literature and theory here is an attempt to capture the logic of a text's own disagreement with itself.

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Utgivningsdatum:1985-04-26
Mått:152 x 229 x 10 mm
Vikt:227 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:168
Förlag:Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:9780801827280

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Barbara Johnson is professor of French and comparative literature at Harvard University. She is author of Défigurations du langage poétique and translator of Jacques Derrida's La Dissémination.

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When it is done well, deconstructive criticism can be a pleasure to read, as it is in the case of Barbara Johnson. Her discussions of the reading process... are patient, ingenious, and persuasive. -- Robert Scholes Yale Review When it is done well, deconstructive criticism can be a pleasure to read, as it is in the case of Barbara Johnson. Her discussions of the reading process... are patient, ingenious, and persuasive. -- Robert Scholes Yale Review

Innehållsförteckning

Opening RemarksPart I. Sexuality and DifferenceChapter 1. The Critical Difference: BartheS/BalZacChapter 2. Allegory's Trip-Tease: The White WaterlilyPart II. Poetry and DifferenceChapter 3. Poetry and Its Double: Two invitations au voyageChapter 4. Poetry and Performative Language: Mallarme and AustinChapter 5. Poetry and Syntax: What the Gypsy KnewPart III. Difference in the ActChapter 6. Melville's Fist: The Execution of Billy BuddChapter 7. The Frame of Reference: Poe, Lacan, DerridaNotesIndex

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