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Author Johnson, Barbara, 1947-2009.

Title A world of difference / Barbara Johnson
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1987]
©1987

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 W'PONDS  801.95 J6622/W  AVAILABLE
Description xii, 225 pages ; 24 cm
Contents pt. 1. The fate of deconstruction Nothing fails like success -- Rigorous unreliability -- Is writerliness conservative -- Gender theory and the Yale school -- Deconstruction, feminism, and pedagogy -- pt. 2. Significant gaps A hound, a bay horse, and a turtle dove: obscurity in Walden -- Erasing Panama: Mallarmé and the text of history -- Teaching ignorance: L'ecole des femmes -- pt. 3. Poetic differences Strange fits: Poe and Wordsworth on the nature of poetic language -- Disfiguring poetic language -- Les fleurs du Mal Armé: some reflections on intertextuality -- pt. 4. Other inflections of difference Mallarmé as mother -- My monster/my self -- Metaphor, metonymy, and voice in Their eyes were watching God -- Thresholds of difference: structures of address in Zora Neale Hurston -- Apostrophe, animation, and abortion
Analysis Literature Deconstruction
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 213-222
Subject Criticism.
LC no. 86046286
ISBN 0801826519
0801837456