Reading and Responsibility: Deconstruction's Traces

by Derek Attridge

Book Overview

What is the importance of deconstruction, and the writing of Jacques Derrida in particular, for literary criticism today? Derek Attridge argues that the challenge of Derrida's work for our understanding of literature and its value has still not been fully met, and in this book, which traces a close engagement with Derrida's writing over two decades and reflects an interest in that work going back a further two decades, shows how that work can illuminate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748643184
• ISBN13: 9780748643189
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher