TY  - GEN
T1  - The Yale critics : deconstruction in America
T2  - Theory and history of literature ;
A2  - Arac, Jonathan, 1945-
A2  - Godzich, Wlad
A2  - Martin, Wallace
LA  - English
PP  - Minneapolis
PB  - University of Minnesota Press
YR  - 1983
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn191932901
AB  - A heated debate has been raging in North America in recent years over the form and function of literature. At the center of the fray is a group of critics teaching at Yale University - Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, Paul de Man, and J. Hillis Miller - whose work can be described in relation to the deconstructive philosophy practiced by French philosopher Jacques Derrida. For over a decade the Yale Critics have aroused controversy; most often they are considered as a group, to be applauded or attacked, rather than as individuals whose ideas merit critical scrutiny. Here a new generation of scholars attempts for the first time a serious, broad assessment of the Yale group. These essays appraise the Yale Critics by exploring their roots, their individual careers, and the issues they introduce. Wallace Martin's introduction offers a brilliant, compact account of the Yale Critics and of their relation to deconstruction and the deconstruction to two characteristically Anglo-American enterprises; Paul Bove explores the new criticism and Wlad Godzich the reception of Derrida in America. Next come essays giving individual attention to each of the critics: Michael Sprinker on Hartman, Donald Pease on Miller, Stanley Corngold on de Man, and Daniel O'Hara on Bloom. Two essays then illuminate "deconstruction in America" through a return to modern continental philosophy: Donald Marshall on Maurice Blanchot, and Rodolphe Gasche on Martin Heidegger. Finally, Jonathan Arac's afterword brings the volume together and projects a future beyond the Yale Critics. Throughout, the contributors aim to provide a balanced view of a subject that has most often been treated polemically. While useful as an introduction, The Yale Critics also engages in a serious critical reflection on the uses of the humanities in American today
OP  - 222
CN  - PN98.D43 Y34 1983eb
SN  - 9780816653041
SN  - 0816653046
SN  - 9780816612017
SN  - 0816612013
SN  - 0816612064
SN  - 9780816612062
KW  - Deconstruction.
KW  - Criticism : United States.
KW  - Deconstructivism (Architecture)
KW  - Déconstruction.
KW  - Critique : États-Unis.
KW  - Déconstructivisme (Architecture)
KW  - Deconstructivist.
KW  - deconstruction (theory)
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : American : General.
KW  - Criticism
KW  - Deconstruction
KW  - United States
KW  - Electronic book.
ER  -