Saving the Text: Literature/Derrida/Philosophy

by Geoffrey H. Hartman

Book Overview

Saving the Text cuts through Jacques Derrida's complex blend of philosophy, commentary, and elaborate wordplay to ascertain his place in the history of criticism and the significance of Glas as a literary event. Distinguished critic and scholar Geoffrey Hartman explores the usefulness of Derrida's style of close reading for English and American scholarship and establishes its relevance to the division that has arisen between European and Anglo-American...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801824524
• ISBN13: 9780801824524
• Release Date: March 1981
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.