Radical Indecision: Barthes, Blanchot, Derrida, and the Future of Criticism

by Leslie Hill

In his newest book, Radical Indecision, esteemed scholar Leslie Hill poses the following question: If the task of a literary critic is to make decisions about the value of a literary work or the values embodied in it, decisions in turn based on some inherited or established values, what happens when that piece of literature fails to subscribe to the established values? Put another way, how should literary criticism respond to the paradox...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026803107X
• ISBN13: 9780268031077
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 454 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"