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The Yale Critics: Deconstruction in America Theory and History of Literature Edited by Wlad Godzich and Jochen Schulte-Sasse Volume 1. Tzvetan Todorov Introduction to Poetics Volume 2. Hans Robert Jauss Toward an Aesthetic of Reception Volume 3. Hans Robert Jauss Aesthetic Experience and Literary Hermeneutics Volume 4. Peter Burger Theory of the Avant-Garde Volume 5. Vladimir Propp Theory and History of Folklore Volume 6. Edited by Jonathan Arac, Wlad Godzich, and Wallace Martin The Yale Critics: Deconstruction in America The Yale Critics: Deconstruction in America Jonathan Arac, Wlad Godzich, Wallace Martin Editors Theory and History of Literature, Volume 6 University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis The University of Minnesota Press gratefully acknowledges assistance provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for publication of this book. Copyright © 1983 by the University of Minnesota All rights reserved. Published by the University of Minnesota Press, 2037 University Avenue Southeast, Minneapolis, MN 55414 Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title: The Yale critics. (Theory and history of literature; v. 6) Bibliography: p. 203 Includes index 1. Deconstruction—Addresses, essays, lectures. 2. Criticism—United States—Addresses, essays, lectures. I. Arac, Jonathan, 1945- II. Godzich, Wlad. III. Martin, Wallace. IV. Series. PN98.D43Y34 1983 801.95'0973 83-1127 ISBN 0-8166-1201-3 ISBN 0-8166-1206-4 (pbk.) The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer. Contents Key to Brief Titles vii Preface ix Introduction Wallace Martin xv PART I Variations on Authority: Some Deconstructive Transformations of the New Criticism Paul A. Bove 3 The Domestication of Derrida Wlad Godzich 20 PART II Aesthetic Criticism: Geoffrey Hartman Michael Sprinker 43 J. Hillis Miller: The Other Victorian at Yale Donald Pease 66 Error in Paul de Man Stanley Corngold 90 The Genius of Irony: Nietzsche in Bloom Daniel O'Hara 109 PART III History, Theory, and Influence: Yale Critics as Readers of Maurice Blanchot Donald G. Marshall 135 Joining the Text: From Heidegger to Derrida Rodolphe Gasche 156 Afterword Jonathan Arac 176 Bibliography Wallace Martin 203 Contributors 213 Index 217 This page intentionally left blank Key to Brief Titles The following abbreviations are used for citations; publication informa- tion appears in the bibliography. When authors or full titles are cited in parentheses—e.g., "(Morris, p. 70)" or "(Bassett, "Tastes Criti- ques')"—the references can be found in the bibliography. ABW Miller, "Ariachne's Broken Woof" AI Bloom, The Anxiety of Influence AR de Man, Allegories of Reading BF Hartman, Beyond Formalism BI de Man, Blindness and Insight BT Hartman, "Blessing the Torrent" BV Bloom, The Breaking of the Vessels CCC de Man, "The Crisis of Contemporary Criticism" CW Hartman, Criticism in the Wilderness DC Deconstruction and Criticism DDW Hartman, "Diction and Defense in Wordsworth" DG Miller, The Disappearance of God EHH de Man, "Les Exegeses de Holderlin par Martin Heidegger" EM Derrida, "The Ends of Man" FCI Bloom, Figures of Capable Imagination FR Hartman, The Fate of Reading G Derrida, Of Grammatology vii viii D KEY TO BRIEF TITLES I de Man, "Introduction" in Studies in Romanticism ICF de Man, "Impasse de la critique formaliste" KC Bloom, Kabbalah and Criticism LG Derrida, "The Law of Genre" in Critical Inquiry MM Bloom, A Map of Misreading NC de Man, "New criticism et nouvelle critique" P Derrida, "Pas I" PR Miller, Poets of Reality PRR Bloom, Poetry and Repression: Revisionism from Blake to Stevens RM Derrida, "The Retrait of Metaphor" RT de Man, "The Rhetoric of Temporality" SC The Structuralist Controversy SI de Man, "Structure intentionelle de Vimage romantique" ST Hartman, Saving the Text TP Miller, "Theory and Practice" WP Hartman, Wordsworth's Poetry, 1787-1814 WSA Miller, "Williams' Spring and All and the Progress of Poetry" WWW Hartman, "Words, Wish, Worth: Wordsworth" Preface The "Yale Critics"—Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, Paul de Man, and J. Hillis Miller—are often represented as a group that one should defend or oppose rather than as individuals whose ideas deserve critical scrutiny. Our intention in this volume has been to stimulate serious, careful assessment of their writings in relation to recent American criticism and to the critical tradition. Thus W. K. Wimsatt, Cleanth Brooks, and M. H. Abrams form one context of reference for our contributors, while Longinus on the sublime, Schiller on the aesthetic, and Wordsworth on the poet's relation to the public all come into play at other points. To achieve this initial location, we have had to refrain from pursuing other important current concerns, such as feminism, semiotics, and ethnic and regional studies. The largest context that continually concerns us is that of the gap be- tween Anglo-American and Continental criticism, resulting from a dif- ference in social experience. This gap has made significant dialogue be- tween the two extremely difficult, and to the extent that the Yale Critics are important voices in that dialogue it has made them hard for American readers to understand. By selecting contributors who, in different ways, find themselves between these two traditions, we hope that we have made our volume interesting and accessible to the American reader. The in- troduction offers a brief history of the Yale Critics and deconstruction. It is followed by two essays on the relations of deconstruction to the ix
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