DECONSTRUCTION READING LIST
Mythologies (1957)
"The Resistance to Theory" (1982)
"The Epistemology of Metaphor" (1978)
"Semiology and Rhetoric" (1973)
"Literary History and Literary Modernity" (1970)
"The Rhetoric of Temporality" (1969)
"The Function of Literary Theory at the Present Time" (1989)
"Presidential Address, 1986.: the Triumph of Theory, the Resistance to Reading, and the Question of the Material Base" (1986 / 1987)
"The Search for Grounds" (1985)
"Constructions in Criticism" (1984)
"Composition and Decomposition: Deconstruction and the Teaching of Writing" (1983)
"On Edge: the Crossways of Contemporary Criticism" (1979)
"The Function of Rhetorical Study at the Present Time" (1979)
"The Critic as Host" (1977)
"Steven's Rock and Criticism as Cure I and II" (1976)
"The State of the Art of Criticism" (1989)
"Theory and Critical Style: from Common to Uncommon Reader" (1987)
"The Struggle for the Text" (1986)
"Tea and Totality: the Demand of Theory on Critical Style" (1986)
"Meaning, Error, Text" (1985)
"Understanding Criticism" (1985)
"The Culture of Criticism" (1984)
"The New Wilderness: Critics as Connoisseurs of Chaos" (1983)s
"Criticism, Indeterminacy, Irony" (1981)
"Crossing Over: Literary Commentary as Literature" (1976)
"Romanticism and Anti-Self-Consciousness" (1962)
Jacques Derrida (1930 - 2005):
"Force of Law: the Mystical Foundation of Authority" (1989)
"Signature Event Context" (1971)
"White Mythology: Metaphor in the Text of Philosophy" (1971)
"Différance" (1968)
"Form and Meaning: a Note on the Phenomenology of Language" (1967)
Of Grammatology (1967)
"Freud and the Scene of Writing" (1966)
"Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences" (1966)
"'Genesis and Structure' and Phenomenology" (1959)
Agon: Towards a Theory of Revisionism (1982)
Poetry and Repression: Revisionism from Blake to Stevens (1976)
A Map of Misreading (1975)
The Anxiety of Influence: a Theory of Poetry (1973)
"Critical Self-Consciousness, or Can We know What We're Doing" (1989)
"Rhetoric" (1989)
"Anti-Foundationalism, Theory Hope, and the Teaching of Composition" (1987)
"With the Compliments of the Author: Reflections on Austin and Derrida" (1982)
"Working on the Chain Gang: Interpretation in Law and Literature" (1982)
"Demonstration versus Persuasion: Two Models of Critical Activity" (1980)
"Is There a Text in this Class?" (1980)
"What Makes an Interpretation Acceptable" (1980)
"How to do Things With Austin and Searle: Speech-Act Theory and Literary Criticism" (1976)
"Interpreting the Variorium" (1976)
"Literature in the Reader: Affective Stylistics" (1970)
More Radical Hermeneutics: on Not Knowing Who We Are (2000)
Radical Hermeneutics: Repetition, Deconstruction and the Hermeneutic Project (1987)