Deconstructive Criticism: An Advanced Introduction

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Columbia University Press, 1983 - 290 pages

The ideal prelude to the study of deconstructive theory for the as-yet-uninitiated reader. Leitch uses in-depth analyses, surveys of historical background, and helpful overviews to address the questions posed by the major figures -- Saussure, Lacan, Levi-Strauss, Heidegger, Derrida, Barthes Foucault -- then penetrates and displays the subtle intricacies of their answers.

 

Contents

Modern Theories of the Sign
3
The Subversion of Foundations
24
Extensions of Subversion
39
3
57
ΙΟ
84
32
109
Strategies of Deconstruction
165
39
188
Post Script
253
Hermeneutics Semiotics and Deconstruction
259
Notes
269
3390
272
Note on Bibliography
285
Copyright

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About the author (1983)

Vincent B. Leitch is professor of English at Purdue University and author of Cultural Criticism, Literary Theory, Poststructuralism and American Literary Criticism from the Thirties to the Eighties, both from Columbia University Press.

Bibliographic information

TitleDeconstructive Criticism: An Advanced Introduction
AuthorVincent B. Leitch
PublisherColumbia University Press, 1983
ISBN0231054734, 9780231054737
Length290 pages
  
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