Challenging Theory: Discipline After Deconstruction: Studies in European Cultural Transition, Volume One

by Catherine Burgass

First published in 1999, this volume perceives that English literature in under threat as an academic discipline. In Challenging Theory, Catherine Burgass warns against the recent trend towards the conflation of literature teaching with cultural studies in British and American universities. Focusing on theory of deconstruction, as developed by Jacques Derrida in the 1960s, the book redresses some common mistenterpretations of Derrinda's work relating...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138625841
• ISBN13: 9781138625846
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 179 Pages