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Book Synopsis''Dazzling and fun, from the memorial to the formidable (or should I say notorious?) Paul de Man, which introduces the possibility of feminist deconstruction, to the revisions and re-readings of motherhood as a nearly untenable discursive position.''--Voice Literary Supplement.
Trade ReviewDazzling and fun, from the memorial to the formidable (or should I say notorious?) Paul de Man, which introduces the possibility of feminist deconstruction, to the revisions and re-readings of motherhood as a nearly untenable discursive position. Voice Literary Supplement Dazzling and fun, from the memorial to the formidable (or should I say notorious?) Paul de Man, which introduces the possibility of feminist deconstruction, to the revisions and re-readings of motherhood as a nearly untenable discursive position. Voice Literary Supplement
Table of ContentsPreface to the Paperback Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. The Fate of Deconstruction
Chapter 1. Nothing Fails Like Success
Chapter 2. Rigorous Unreliability
Chapter 3. Is Writerliness Conservative?
Chapter 4. Gender Theory and the Yale School
Chapter 5. Deconstruction, Feminism, and Pedagogy
Part II. Significant Gaps
Chapter 6. A Hound, a Bay Horse, and a Turtle Dove: Obscurity in Walden
Chapter 7. Erasing Panama: Mallarmé and the Text of History
Chapter 8. Teaching Ignorance: L'Ecole des femmes
Part III. Poetic Differences
Chapter 9. Strange Fits: Poe and Wordsworth on the Nature of Poetic Language
Chapter 10. Disfiguring Poetic Language
Chapter 11. Les Fleurs du Mal Armé: Some Reflections
Part IV. Other Inflections of Difference
Chapter 12. Mallarmé as Mother
Chapter 13. My Monster/My Self
Chapter 14. Metaphor, Metonymy, and Voice in Their Eyes Were Watching God
Chapter 15. Thresholds of Differences: Structures of Address in Zora Neale Hurston
Chapter 16. Apostrophe, Animation, and Abortion
Appendix to Chapter 7
Appendix to Chapter 16
Notes
Index
