Saving the Text: Literature/Derrida/Philosophy - Softcover

Hartman, Prof Geoffrey H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801824532 ISBN 13: 9780801824531

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982

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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About the Author

Geoffrey H. Hartman is the Sterling Professor (Emeritus) of English and Comparative Literature at Yale University.

From the Back Cover

"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 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. In addition, he discusses Derrida's exepesis in relation to theological commentary. Hartman's culminating "counterstatement" to Derrida is a new theory of literature, both speculative and pragmatic.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801824532
• ISBN 13: 9780801824531
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 184