Beyond Deconstruction: The Uses and Abuses of Literary Theory

244 Pages·1987·8.38 MB·English

by  Howard Felperin

BEYOND
DECONSTRUCTION
The Uses and Abuses of Literary Theory
HOWARD FELPERIN

Beyond Deconstruction
The Uses and Abuses
of Literary Theory
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BEYOND
DECONSTRUCTION
The Uses and Abuses
of Literary Theory
HOWARD FELPERIN
CLARENDON PRESS • OXFORD
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Felperin, Howard
Beyond deconstruction: the uses and
abuses of literary theory.
1. Literature—Philosophy
I. Title
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ISBN 0-19-812896-7
Printed in Great Britain
at the University Printing House, Oxford
by David Stanford
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For
Geoffrey Hartman,
and the memory of
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Contents
Preface: A Guide to the Perplexed 1
1. Leavisism Revisited 6
2. Marxism Redivivus 50
3. Structuralism in Retrospect 74
4. Deconstruction Reconstructed 104
5. Toward a Poststructuralist Practice:
A Reading of Shakespeare’s Sonnets 147
6. Beyond Theory 200
index 224
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