A World of Difference (Paperback)

Is a willingness to carry an inquiry to the point of undecidability necessarily at odds with political engagement? In A World of Difference Barbara Johnson extends and rethinks the theoretical perspectives on literature opened up by her earlier book, The Critical Difference. Through subtle and probing analyses of texts by Wordsworth, Poe, Baudelaie, Mallarme, Thoreau, Mary Shelley, Zora Neale HUrston, Gwendolyn Brooks, and others, she attempts to transfer the analysis of "difference" from the realm of linguistic universality or deconstructive allegory into contexts in which difference is very much at issue in the world. New to the paperback edition is a preface that readdresses the question of the politics of deconstruction in the context of current discussion about the life and works of Paul de Man.

General

Imprint:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 1988
First published:	1988
Authors:	Barbara Johnson
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-0-8018-3745-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Promotions
LSN:	0-8018-3745-6
Barcode:	9780801837456

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