Eliot To Derrida: The Poverty of Interpretation
by John Harwood
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'...a book which should be read by all students contemplating enrolment for a university course in modern English or European literary studies.' - Roy Harris, Times Higher Education Supplement Eliot to Derrida is a sardonic portrait of the cult of the specialist interpreter, from I.A. Richards and the Cambridge School to Jacques Derrida and his disciples. This lucid, iconoclastic study shows how, and why, so much of the academic response to a rich variety of literary experiment has been show more straitjacketed by the vast industries which have grown up around `modernism' and `postmodernism'. For anyone disenchanted with the extravagant claims - and leaden prose - of literary theorists, this will be an exhilarating book. show lessTags
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- T. S. Eliot; Jacques Derrida
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- Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature, Philosophy
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- 801.95 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism Philosophy and theory Nature and character Literary theory and criticism
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- PS3509 .L43 .Z68165 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1900-1960
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