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After Derrida: Literature, Theory and Criticism in the 21st Century

By Jean-Michel Rabaté

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2018
ISBN
1108426107, 9781108426107
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10446174 bytes)
Pages
244\229
Topic
Literature
Time added
2020-11-13 17:55:26

Description

This collection of essays explores the main concepts and methods of reading launched by French philosopher Jacques Derrida who died in 2004. Derrida exerted a huge influence on literary critics in the 1980s, but later there was a backlash against his theories. Today, one witnesses a general return to his way of reading literature, the rationale of which is detailed and explained in the essays. The authors, both well-known and younger specialists, give many precise examples of how Derrida, who always remained at the cusp between literature and philosophy, posed fundamental questions and thus changed the field of literary criticism, especially with regard to poetry. The contributors also highlight the way Derrida made spectacular interventions in feminism, psychoanalytic studies, animal studies, digital humanities and post-colonial studies.

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