DECONSTRUCTIVE LITERARY THEORY

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Philosophers / Theorists:

• Roland Barthes (1915 - 1980)

• Paul De Man (1919 - 1983)

• J. Hillis Miller (1928 - )

• Geoffrey Hartman (1929 - )

• Jacques Derrida (1930 - 2005)

• Harold Bloom (1930 - ) (see also Psychoanalysis)

• Stanley Fish (1938 - ) (see also Foucauldian Theory, Pragmatism, and Speech-Act Critical Theory)

• Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940 - )

• Jonathan Culler (1944 - )

• Barbara Johnson (1947 - )

• Christopher Norris (1947 - )

• Werner Hamacher (1948 - )

Feminist:

• Deconstructive Feminist Literary Theory

Post-colonial:

• Deconstructive Post-colonial Literary Theory

COURSES

• State University of New York, Stony Brook: 

  • Deconstruction and Criticism (Silverman)

  • Philosophy and the Arts After Derrida (Silverman)

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Bloom, Harold, Paul De Man, Jacques Derrida, Geoffrey H. Hartman, and J. Hillis Miller.  Deconstruction and Criticism.  New York: Continuum, 1979.

• Selected Individual Works:

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SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Arac, Jonathan, Wlad Godzich, and Wallace Martin, eds.  The Yale Critics: Deconstruction in America.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1983.

  • Bloom, Harold, Paul De Man, Jacques Derrida, Geoffrey H. Hartman, and J. Hillis Miller.  Deconstruction and Criticism.  New York: Continuum, 1979.

  • Caruth, Cathy, and Deborash Esch, eds.  Critical Encounters: Reference and Responsibility in Deconstructive Writing.  New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1995.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Arac, Jonathan.  "Shelley, Deconstruction, History."  Critical Genealogies: Historical Situations for Postmodern Literary Studies.  New York: Columbia UP, 1987.  97-113.

  • Atkins, G. Douglas.  Reading Deconstruction / Deconstructive Reading.  Lexington: U of Kentucky P, 1983.

  • Berman, Art.  "Deconstruction in America."  From the New Criticism to Deconstruction: the Reception of Structuralism and Post-Structuralism.  Chicago: U of Illinois P, 1988.

  • Culler, Jonathan.   The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction.  London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981.

  • Culler, Jonathan.  "Deconstructive Criticism."  On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism After Structuralism.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1982.  227-280.
  • Gasché, Rodolphe.  "Unscrambling Positions: on Gerald Graff's Critique of Deconstruction."  MLN 96 (1981): 1015-1034.
  • Gasché, Rodolphe.  "Deconstruction as Criticism."  Glyph 6.  Johns Hopkins Textual Studies (1979): 177-215.
  • de Graef, Ortwin.  "The Yale Critics?  J. Hillis Miller (1928-), Geoffrey Hartman (1929-), Harold Bloom (1929-), Paul. de Man (1919-1983)."  The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia of Modern Criticism and Theory.  Ed. Julian Wolfreys, et al.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2002.  472-81.

  • Leitch, Vincent.  Deconstructive Criticism: an Advanced Introduction.  New York: Columbia UP, 1982.

  • Leitch, Vincent B.  "Deconstructive Criticism."  American Literary Criticism from the 30s to the 80s.  New York: Columbia UP, 1988.  267-306.

  • Lentricchia, Frank.  "History or the Abyss: Poststructuralism."  After the New Criticism.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1980.  156-210.

  • Moynihan, Robert.  A Recent Imagining: Interviews With Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, J. Hillis Miller, and Paul De Man.  Archon, 1986.

  • Ray, William.  Literary Meaning: from Phenomenology to Deconstruction.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1984.

  • Rorty, Richard.  "Deconstruction."  From Formalism to Poststructuralism.  Vol. 8 of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism.  Ed. Raman Selden.  Cambridge: CUP, 1995.
  • Tyson, Lois.  "Deconstructive Criticism."  Critical Theory Today: a User-Friendly Guide.  New York: Garland, 1998.

  • Zima, Peter.  Die Dekonstruktion: Einführung und Kritik.  Stuttgart: UTB, 1994.

    • Deconstruction and Critical Theory.  London: Continuum, 2002.

On-Line:

• Kneale, J. Douglas: Deconstruction (Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism)

• Surdulescu, Radu: Deconstruction, or the Withinness of Difference: American Deconstruction

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