World of Difference

Häftad, Engelska, 1988

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Is a willingness to carry an inquiry to the point of undecidability necessarily at odds with political engagement? In A World of Difference Barbara Johnson extends and rethinks the theoretical perspectives on literature opened up by her earlier book, The Critical Difference. Through subtle and probing analyses of texts by Wordsworth, Poe, Baudelaie, Mallarmé, Thoreau, Mary Shelley, Zora Neale HUrston, Gwendolyn Brooks, and others, she attempts to transfer the analysis of "difference" from the realm of linguistic universality or deconstructive allegory into contexts in which difference is very much at issue in the world. New to the paperback edition is a preface that readdresses the question of the politics of deconstruction in the context of current discussion about the life and works of Paul de Man.

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Utgivningsdatum1988-12-27
Mått152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt340 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagJohns Hopkins University Press
ISBN9780801837456

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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