On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism After Structuralism

On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism After Structuralism by Culler, Jonathan D.. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780801413223.

From reviews of the first edition?"Academic literary crticism continues to be dominated by theory and the struggle between deconstructionist and humanist approaches to the business of reading. Jonathan Cullers On Deconstruction is a typically patient, thoughtful, illuminating exposition of the ideas of Jacques Derrida and their application to literary studies."-David Lodge, Commonwealth"Culler is lucid and thorough, can move into and out of other peoples arguments without losing the sense of his own voice and argument, and can manage to seem equally at home with Freudianism, feminism, and traditional literary criticism."-Times Literary Supplement"As a practicing critic Culler has always been a deconstructor, and he approaches this topic with special immediacy and force. In On Deconstruction he offers generous summaries of numerous representative articles and a fine annotated bibliography. . . . His magisterial way of tracing particular topics and techniques through our diaspora of