Theory at Yale: The Strange Case of Deconstruction in America

by Marc Redfield

Book Overview

This book examines the affinity between "theory" and "deconstruction" that developed in the American academy in the 1970s by way of the "Yale Critics" Harold Bloom, Paul de Man, Geoffrey Hartman, and J. Hillis Miller, sometimes joined by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida.

With this semi-fictional collective, theory became a media event, first in the academy and then in the wider print media, in and through its phantasmatic link with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823268667
• ISBN13: 9780823268665
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"