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A world of difference

By Barbara Johnson

Book information

Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Year
1987
ISBN
9780801837456, 9780801826511
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
41 MB (43046307 bytes)
Pages
256\245
Library
Fulcrum
Time added
2023-06-13 07:09:31

Description

Is a willingness to carry an inquiry to the point of undecidability necessarily at odds with political engagement? In A World of Difference Barbara Johnson extends and rethinks the theoretical perspectives on literature opened up by her earlier book, The Critical Difference. Through subtle and probing analyses of texts by Wordsworth, Poe, Baudelaie, Mallarmé, Thoreau, Mary Shelley, Zora Neale HUrston, Gwendolyn Brooks, and others, she attempts to transfer the analysis of "difference" from the realm of linguistic universality or deconstructive allegory into contexts in which difference is very much at issue in the world. New to the paperback edition is a preface that readdresses the question of the politics of deconstruction in the context of current discussion about the life and works of Paul de Man.

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