Reading deconstruction, deconstructive reading / G. Douglas Atkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Atkins, G. Douglas (George Douglas), 1943- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deconstruction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (172 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1983.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Deconstruction -- a mode of close reading associated with the contemporary philosopher Jacques Derrida and other members of the ""Yale School"" -- is the current critical rage, and is likely to remain so for some time. Reading Deconstruction / Deconstructive Reading offers a unique, informed, and badly needed introduction to this important movement, written by one of its most sensitive and lucid practitioners. More than an introduction, this book makes a significant addition to the current debate in critical theory.G. Douglas Atkins first analyzes and explains deconstruction theory and practi

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part One: Reading Deconstruction; 1. The Sign as a Structure of Difference: Derridean Deconstruction and Some of Its Implications; 2. Dehellenizing Literary Criticism; 3. Reader-Responsibility Criticism: The Recent Work of Geoffrey Hartman; 4. J. Hillis Miller, Deconstruction, and the Recovery of Transcendence; Part Two: Reading Deconstruction Becomes Deconstructive Reading; 5. The Story of Error; Part Three: Deconstructive Reading

6. Reading and/as Swerving: The Quest(ion) of Interpretive Authority in Dryden's Religio Laici7. Allegory of Blindness and Insight: Will and Will-ing in A Tale of a Tub; 8. ""Grac[ing] These Ribalds"": The Play of Difference in Pope's Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot; 9. The Vanity of Human Wishes: A Conclusion in Which Nothing Is Concluded; Notes; Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813101651

0813101654

9780813158341

0813158346

OCLC:

559232135