Deconstruction: A Critique

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction

   • Rajnath

   Pages 1-9

3. From Theory to Thematics: the Ideological Underside of Recent Theory

   • Murray Krieger

   Pages 10-31

4. Construing and Deconstructing

   • M. H. Abrams

   Pages 32-67

5. The New Criticism and Deconstruction: Attitudes to Language and Literature

   • Rajnath

   Pages 68-92

6. Samuel Johnson among the Deconstructionists

   • Jean H. Hagstrum

   Pages 93-104

7. Philosophy, Theory and the ‘Contest of Faculties’: Saving Deconstruction from the Pragmatists

   • Christopher Norris

   Pages 105-122

8. The Marxism Deconstruction Debate in Literary Theory

   • Michael Ryan

   Pages 123-137

9. Deconstructive Philosophy and Imaginal Psychology: Comparative Perspectives on Jacques Derrida and James Hillman

   • Michael Vannoy Adams

   Pages 138-157

10. Deconstruction and American Poetry: Williams and Stevens

    • Rajeev Patke

    Pages 158-179

11. The Anxiety of American Deconstruction

    • Howard Felperin

    Pages 180-196

12. The Post-Turn Turn: Derrida, Gadamer and the Remystification of Language

    • Leonard Orr

    Pages 197-212

13. Setzung and Übersetzung: Notes on Paul de Man

    • Rodolphe Gasché

    Pages 213-252

14. The Lateral Dance: The Deconstructive Criticism of J. Hillis Miller

    • Vincent B. Leitch

    Pages 253-270

15. Hartman and Derrida

    • Jonathan Culler

    Pages 271-277

16. Back Matter

    Pages 278-281

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This collection of essays examines a wide range of topics relating to deconstruction, which emerged in France as a reaction to structuralism but has found its greatest response in America, where literary critics have built on its basic assumptions to create a new critical movement.

• critique
• Hans-Georg Gadamer
• Jacques Derrida
• literary theory
• New Criticism
• poetry
• structuralism

• University of Allahabad, India

  Rajnath

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