The Barbara Johnson Reader : The Surprise of Otherness

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Barbara.

Contributor:

González, Melissa.

Johnson González, Bill.

Valens, Keja L.

Porten, Lili.

Series:

a John Hope Franklin Center Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist literary criticism.

Johnson, Barbara, -- 1947-2009.

Local Subjects:

Feminist literary criticism.

Johnson, Barbara, -- 1947-2009.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (482 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.

Summary:

<div>This Reader collects in a single volume some of the most influential essays written by Barbara Johnson over the course of her thirty-year career as a pioneering literary theorist and cultural critic. Johnson achieved renown early in her career, both as a brilliant student of the Yale School of literary criticism and as the translator of Jacques Derrida's <I>Dissemination</I>. She went on to lead the way in extending the insights of structuralism and poststructuralism into newly emerging fields now central to literary studies, fields such as gender studies, African American studies, queer

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Editors' Preface; Personhood and Other Objects: The Figural Dispute with Philosophy by Judith Butler; Barbara Johnson by Barbara Johnson; Part I. Reading Theory as Literature, Literature as Theory; 1. The Critical Difference: BartheS/BalZac; 2. Translator's Introduction to Dissemination (abridged); 3. Poetry and Syntax: What the Gypsy Knew; 4. A Hound, a Bay Horse, and a Turtle Dove: Obscurity in Walden; 5. Strange Fits: Poe and Wordsworth on the Nature of Poetic Language; 6. The Frame of Reference: Poe, Lacan, Derrida; Part II. Race, Sexuality, Gender

7. Euphemism, Understatement, and the Passive Voice: A Genealogy of Afro-American Poetry8. Metaphor, Metonymy, and Voice in Their Eyes Were Watching God; 9. Moses and Intertexuality: Sigmund Freud, Zora Neale Hurston, and the Bible; 10. Lesbian Spectacles: Reading Sula, Passing, Thelma and Louise, and The Accused; 11. Bringing Out D. A. Miller; 12. Correctional Facilities; 13. My Monster/My Self; Part III. Language, Personhood, Ethics; 14. Introduction to Freedom and Interpretation (abridged); 15. Muteness Envy; 16. Apostrophe, Animation, and Abortion; 17. Anthropomorphism in Lyric and Law

18. Using People: Kant with Winnicott19. Ego Sum Game; 20. Melville's Fist: The Execution of Billy Budd; Part IV. Pedagogy and Translation; 21. Nothing Fails Like Success; 22. Bad Writing; 23. Teaching Deconstructively; 24. Poison or Remedy? Paul de Man as Pharmakon; 25. Taking Fidelity Philosophically; 26. The Task of the Translator; 27. Teaching Ignorance: L'Ecole des femmes; Afterword: Barbara's Signature by Shoshana Felman; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)

ISBN:

9780822399070

0822399075

OCLC:

881608106