Double Reading : : Postmodernism after Deconstruction / / Jeffrey T. Nealon.

Deconstruction, it seems, is dead. Its death, according to Jeffrey T. Nealon, is commonly attributed either to suicide—a direct result of its own decline into a formalism it was supposed to remedy—or to murder at the hands of the New Historicists. Looking beyond its presumed demise, Nealon sees its...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Acknowledgments --
1. "In the Interests of Professionalism'' --
2. The Discipline of Deconstruction --
3. Exteriority and Appropriation: Foucault, Derrida, and the Discipline of Literary Criticism --
4. Theorizing the Postmodern: At the End of Metaphysics --
5. Gravity's Rainbow and the Postmodern Other --
6. Politics, Poetics, and Institutions: "Language" Poetry --
7. By Way of a Conclusion: Three Words for Derrida --
Works Cited --
Index
Summary:Deconstruction, it seems, is dead. Its death, according to Jeffrey T. Nealon, is commonly attributed either to suicide—a direct result of its own decline into a formalism it was supposed to remedy—or to murder at the hands of the New Historicists. Looking beyond its presumed demise, Nealon sees its insights as continuing to figure importantly in postmodernist critical debates.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781501744716
9783110536171
DOI:10.7591/9781501744716
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Jeffrey T. Nealon.