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When it is done well, deconstructive criticism can be a pleasure to read, as it is in the case of Barbara Johnson. Her discussions of the reading process... are patient, ingenious, and persuasive. -- Robert Scholes Yale Review When it is done well, deconstructive criticism can be a pleasure to read, as it is in the case of Barbara Johnson. Her discussions of the reading process... are patient, ingenious, and persuasive. -- Robert Scholes Yale Review

Table of Contents

Opening Remarks
Part I. Sexuality and Difference
Chapter 1. The Critical Difference: BartheS/BalZac
Chapter 2. Allegory's Trip-Tease: The White Waterlily
Part II. Poetry and Difference
Chapter 3. Poetry and Its Double: Two invitations au voyage
Chapter 4. Poetry and Performative Language: Mallarme and Austin
Chapter 5. Poetry and Syntax: What the Gypsy Knew
Part III. Difference in the Act
Chapter 6. Melville's Fist: The Execution of Billy Budd
Chapter 7. The Frame of Reference: Poe, Lacan, Derrida
Notes
Index

The Critical Difference

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 26 April 1985
      ISBN-13 9780801827280
      978-0801827280
      ISBN-10 0801827280

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      When it is done well, deconstructive criticism can be a pleasure to read, as it is in the case of Barbara Johnson. Her discussions of the reading process... are patient, ingenious, and persuasive. -- Robert Scholes Yale Review When it is done well, deconstructive criticism can be a pleasure to read, as it is in the case of Barbara Johnson. Her discussions of the reading process... are patient, ingenious, and persuasive. -- Robert Scholes Yale Review

      Table of Contents

      Opening Remarks
      Part I. Sexuality and Difference
      Chapter 1. The Critical Difference: BartheS/BalZac
      Chapter 2. Allegory's Trip-Tease: The White Waterlily
      Part II. Poetry and Difference
      Chapter 3. Poetry and Its Double: Two invitations au voyage
      Chapter 4. Poetry and Performative Language: Mallarme and Austin
      Chapter 5. Poetry and Syntax: What the Gypsy Knew
      Part III. Difference in the Act
      Chapter 6. Melville's Fist: The Execution of Billy Budd
      Chapter 7. The Frame of Reference: Poe, Lacan, Derrida
      Notes
      Index

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