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The Critical Difference: Essays in the Contemporary Rhetoric of Reading

The Critical Difference: Essays in the Contemporary Rhetoric of Reading


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Barbara Johnson investigates the significant and illuminating ways in which both literature and criticism are "critically different" from what they purport to be. Her subtle and provocative studies of Balzac, Mallarme, Baudelaire, Apollinaire, Melville, Poe, Barthes, Lacan, Austin, and Derrida take a refreshing new approach to the fundamental questions of meaning, interpretation, and the relationship between literature and criticism. In each of seven essays, a clear, precise, and detailed reading of the rhetoric of one or more literary or critical works reveals the text's fundamental discrepancies, ambiguities, and contradictions. If rhetoric is seen as language's capacity to differ from literal statement, and if "to differ" can also mean "to disagree, " then the reading of the rhetoric of literature and theory here is an attempt to capture the logic of a text's own disagreement with itself.

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

About the Author :
Barbara Johnson is professor of French and comparative literature at Harvard University. She is author of Défigurations du langage poétique and translator of Jacques Derrida's La Dissémination.

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


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780801827280
  • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 168
  • Sub Title: Essays in the Contemporary Rhetoric of Reading
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0801827280
  • Publisher Date: 26 Apr 1985
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: 01
  • Weight: 304 gr


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