Yale Critics : Deconstruction in America

Arac, Jonathan; Godzich, Wlad (EDT); Martin, Wallace (EDT)

ISBN 10: 0816612064 / ISBN 13: 9780816612062

Edité par Univ Of Minnesota Press, 1983

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• Titre: Yale Critics : Deconstruction in America
• Éditeur: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Date de parution: 1983
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0816612064
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780816612062
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

The Yale Critics was first published in 1983. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

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.

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Wallace Martin is professor of English, emeritus, at the University of Toledo and is the author of "The New Age" under Orage: Chapters in English Cultural History. His articles on critical theory have appeared in Comparative Literature, Critical Inquiry, and Diacritics.