Deconstruction and Criticism

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Deconstruction and Criticism
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Harold Bloom
By (author) Jacques Derrida
SeriesContinuum Impacts
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:224
Category/GenreLiterary theory
ISBN/Barcode 9780826476920
ClassificationsDewey:801
Audience
Undergraduate
Professional & Vocational
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Publication Date 15 November 2004
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Five essential and challenging essays by leading post-modern theorists on the art and nature of interpretation: Jacques Derrida, Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, Paul de Man, and J. Hillis Miller.

Author Biography

Harold Bloom (b. 1930) is Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University, Berg Professor at New York University, and a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. He is the author of more than twenty books, including The Anxiety of Influence; Deconstruction and Criticism; The Book of J; The Western Canon; Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human; and Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? Jacques Derrida is Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociale in Paris. He is the author of a range of extraordinarily influential works including Dissemination, also available in the Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers series.

Reviews

Reference & Research Book News, August 2006 -- mention