Against Deconstruction / / John Martin Ellis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Ellis, John Martin,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]; ©1989
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

"The focus of any genuinely new piece of criticism or interpretation must be on the creative act of finding the new, but deconstruction puts the matter the other way around: its emphasis is on debunking the old. But aside from the fact that this program is inherently uninteresting, it is, in fact, not at all clear that it is possible. . . . [T]he naïvetê of the crowd is deconstruction's very starting point, and its subsequent move is as much an emotional as an intellectual leap to a position that feels different as much in the one way as the other. . . ." --From the book

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- AGAINST DECONSTRUCTION -- ONE. Analysis, Logic, and Argument in Theoretical Discussion -- TWO. Deconstruction and the Nature of Language -- THREE. Deconstruction and the Theory and Practice of Criticism -- FOUR. What Does It Mean to Say That All Interpretation Is Misinterpretation? -- FIVE. Textuality, the Play of Signs, and the Role of the Reader -- SIX. The Logic of Deconstruction -- SEVEN. Conclusion: The Meaning of Deconstruction in the Contemporary Critical Scene -- Bibliography -- Index