World of Difference

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.

• Preface to the Paperback EditionAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. The Fate of DeconstructionChapter 1. Nothing Fails Like SuccessChapter 2. Rigorous UnreliabilityChapter 3. Is Writerliness Conservative?Chapter 4. Gender Theory and the Yale SchoolChapter 5. Deconstruction, Feminism, and PedagogyPart II. Significant GapsChapter 6. A Hound, a Bay Horse, and a Turtle Dove: Obscurity in WaldenChapter 7. Erasing Panama: Mallarmé and the Text of HistoryChapter 8. Teaching Ignorance: L'Ecole des femmesPart III. Poetic DifferencesChapter 9. Strange Fits: Poe and Wordsworth on the Nature of Poetic LanguageChapter 10. Disfiguring Poetic LanguageChapter 11. Les Fleurs du Mal Armé: Some ReflectionsPart IV. Other Inflections of DifferenceChapter 12. Mallarmé as MotherChapter 13. My Monster/My SelfChapter 14. Metaphor, Metonymy, and Voice in Their Eyes Were Watching GodChapter 15. Thresholds of Differences: Structures of Address in Zora Neale HurstonChapter 16. Apostrophe, Animation, and AbortionAppendix to Chapter 7Appendix to Chapter 16Notes Index

Dazzling and fun, from the memorial to the formidable (or should I say notorious?) Paul de Man, which introduces the possibility of feminist deconstruction, to the revisions and re-readings of motherhood as a nearly untenable discursive position. Voice Literary Supplement Dazzling and fun, from the memorial to the formidable (or should I say notorious?) Paul de Man, which introduces the possibility of feminist deconstruction, to the revisions and re-readings of motherhood as a nearly untenable discursive position. Voice Literary Supplement