Deconstructive Criticism

by Leitch, Vincent B.

• ISBN13: 9780231054737
• ISBN10: 0231054734
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1982-12-01
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Summary

In Deconstructive Criticism: An Advanced Introduction, Vincent B. Leitch provides the as-yet-uninitiated reader with a lucid and comprehensive understanding of established thought and the work currently being done in the field.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Semiology and Deconstruction: Modern Theories of the Sign	p. 1
Prologue: the Greek Edge	p. 3
Foundations: Linguistics, Psychoanalysis, and Anthropology a Modern Adamic Enterprise	p. 7
The Subversion of Foundations	p. 24
Extensions of Subversion	p. 39
Versions of Textuality and Intertextuality: Contemporary Theories of Literature and Tradition	p. 55
Prologue: Notes and Aphorisms Toward A Belated Manifesto	p. 57
The Truth of Literature	p. 60
The Dissemination of the Text	p. 87
The (inter) Texualization of Context	p. 123
Critical Reading and Writing: Strategies of Deconstruction	p. 165
Marking the Supplement	p. 169
Split Writing or Producing Undecidables	p. 179
Allegory and (mis) Reading	p. 183
The Lateral Dance	p. 198
Of Spaced Columns and Supplementary Fonts	p. 205
Divagation on the Analytics of Desire	p. 211
Of Metacriticism and Creative Criticism	p. 224
Modalities of the Edge or Summing Critical Reading/Writing	p. 232
Post Script	p. 253
Appendixes	p. 257
Notes	p. 269
Note on Bibliography	p. 285
Index	p. 287
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