1st Edition
Challenging Theory: Discipline After Deconstruction Studies in European Cultural Transition , Volume One
191 Pages
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Routledge
191 Pages
by
Routledge
191 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1999, this volume perceives that English literature in under threat as an academic discipline. In Challenging Theory , Catherine Burgass warns against the recent trend towards the conflation of literature teaching with cultural studies in British and American universities. Focusing on theory of deconstruction, as developed by Jacques Derrida in the 1960s, the book redresses... Read more
1. Opposition and Difference. 2. Mimesis and Metafiction. 3. Literature and Philosophy. 4. Literary Theory and Critical Practice. 5. Literary Studies and Cultural Studies. 6. Reason and Rhetoric. 7. Poetics and Politics.
Biography
Catherine Burgass, Martin Stannard, Gerg Walker
