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Book SynopsisDifference is one of the most influential critical concepts of recent decades. Mark Currie offers a comprehensive account of the history of the term and its place in some of the most influential schools of theory of the past four decades, including post-structuralism, deconstruction, new historicism, psychoanalysis, French feminism and postcolonialism. Employing literary case studies throughout, Difference provides an accessible introduction to a term at the heart of today's critical idiom.
Table of ContentsSeries Editor’s Preface, Acknowledgements, 1 Introduction: Identity and difference, 2 Difference and reference, 3 Difference, 4 Different histories, 5 Cultural difference, 6 Difference and equivalence, GLOSSARY, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX
