Saving the Text: Literature, Derrida, Philosophy - Hardcover

Hartman

 
9780801824524: Saving the Text: Literature, Derrida, Philosophy
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0801824524 ISBN 13: 9780801824524
Publisher: John Hopkins University Press, 1981

Synopsis

Saving the Text cuts through Jacques Derrida's complex blend of philosophy, commentary, and elaborate wordplay to ascertain his place in the history of criticism and the significance of Glas as a literary event. Distinguished critic and scholar Geoffrey Hartman explores the usefulness of Derrida's style of close reading for English and American scholarship and establishes its relevance to the division that has arisen between European and Anglo-American critical approaches.

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Review

"This is where one ought to go for a sense of what advanced literary theory is pursuing, what it demands of itself and of its texts, and also of its readers." -- Los Angeles Times



"The tone... is excited, gathering, confident; one feels that Hartman is happiest near the text, even a text as strange and unclassifiable as Glas... This particular indeterminacy has stirred new shoots in Hartman's critical wilderness." -- MLN

About the Author

Geoffrey H. Hartman is Karl Young Professor of English at Yale University.

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Publisher
John Hopkins University Press
Publication date
1981
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0801824524
ISBN 13 
9780801824524
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
224

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ISBN 10:  0801824532 ISBN 13:  9780801824531
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982
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