Synopses & Reviews
Review
"This book is about the various attempts to absorb, integrate, and transform structuralism and post-structuralism in the Anglo-American literary scene. Each of these attempts is viewed as reflecting a basic need in Anglo-American theory to legitimate criticism as a form of knowledge, to understand the relationship between literary language and all language, and to maintain the creative entity of self." Reviewed by Daniel Weiss, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)
Synopsis
From the New Criticism to Deconstruction
traces the transitions in American critical theory and practice from the 1950s
to the 1980s. It focuses on the influence of French structuralism and post-structuralism
on American deconstruction within a wide-ranging context that includes literary
criticism, philosophy, psychology, technology, and politics.