DECONSTRUCTION READING LIST

Roland Barthes (1915 - 1980):

• "Textual Analysis of a Tale by Edgar Allan Poe" (1973)
• "Structural Analysis of Narrative: Apropos of Acts 10-11" (1972)
• "The Struggle with the Angel: Textual Analysis of Genesis 32: 22-32" (1971)
• "From Work to Text" (1971)
• "The Death of the Author" (1968)
• "The Reality Effect" (1968)
• "The Discourse of History" (1967)
• "An Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative" (1966)
• "To Write: an Intransitive Verb?" (1966)
• "The Structuralist Activity" (1963)

• Mythologies (1957)

Paul De Man (1919 - 1983):

• "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)

J. Hillis Miller (1928 - ):

• "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)

Geoffrey Hartman (1929 - ):

• "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)

Harold Bloom (1930 - ):

• 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)

Stanley Fish (1938 - ):

• "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)

• "Normal Circumstances, Literal Language, Direct Speech Acts, the Ordinary, the Everyday, the Obvious, What Goes Without Saying, and Other Special Cases" (1978)

• "How to do Things With Austin and Searle: Speech-Act Theory and Literary Criticism" (1976)

• "Interpreting the Variorium" (1976)

• "How Ordinary is Ordinary Language?" (1973)

• "Literature in the Reader: Affective Stylistics" (1970)

John D. Caputo (1940 - ):

• More Radical Hermeneutics: on Not Knowing Who We Are (2000)

• Radical Hermeneutics: Repetition, Deconstruction and the Hermeneutic Project (1987)