Contains essays discussing deconstruction by such authors as Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man, and Barbara Johnson.

Product Description: Benedict Anderson, professor at Cornell and specialist in Southeast Asian studies, is best known for his book Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (1991). It is no understatement to say that this is one of the most influential books of the last twenty years...read more

Product Description: A work of technical skill as well as outstanding literary merit, Structuralist Poetics was awarded the 1975 James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association. It was during the writing of this book that Culler developed his now famous and remarkably complex theory of poetics and narrative, and while never a populariser he nonetheless makes it crystal clear within these pages...read more

Here this immensely influential 20 year old title is reissued due to its continuing relevance as a tool in understanding the literary movement that has dominated recent Anglo-American literary criticism.

Product Description: An introduction to Flaubert that discusses the entire body of his work, beginning by discussing the early novels in sequence, and following by isolating and identifying in them the themes of the novelist's later works. The mature works are then treated at length - not discretely or in chronological order, but as a whole - to create a proper context in which reading can take place...read more

Product Description: With an emphasis on readers and reading, Jonathan Culler considered deconstruction in terms of the questions raised by psychoanalytic, feminist, and reader-response criticism. On Deconstruction is both an authoritative synthesis of Derrida's thought and an analysis of the often-problematic relationship between his philosophical writings and the work of literary critics...read more