| Against Deconstruction Contributor(s): Ellis, John Martin (Author) |
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ISBN: 0691014841 ISBN-13: 9780691014845 Publisher: Princeton University Press OUR PRICE: $39.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1990 Annotation: "Ellis's elegant and absolutely unsentimental book can serve as a sort of solvent in today's critical debates. Not much remains intact: binary oppositions, 'alternative logic, ' texts as 'play, ' and 'performance, ' are all subject to rigorous examination. In the process, Ellis lucidly restores Saussurean categories (so battered and reduced in contemporary criticism) to their original complexity. Appalled by the growth of a class of critics who appear to risk nothing when they take on a literary text, Ellis challenges every reader under the spell of new vocabularies to stop and think. Rarely has scholarly exasperation been put to better or more timely use."--Caryl Emerson, Princeton University |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 801.95 |
| LCCN: 88014045 |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 5.49" W x 8.49" (0.51 lbs) 184 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 |