The Critical Difference: Essays in the Contemporary Rhetoric of Reading

by Barbara Johnson

Book Overview

Barbara Johnson investigates the significant and illuminating ways in which both literature and criticism are "critically different" from what they purport to be. Her subtle and provocative studies of Balzac, Mallarme, Baudelaire, Apollinaire, Melville, Poe, Barthes, Lacan, Austin, and Derrida take a refreshing new approach to the fundamental questions of meaning, interpretation, and the relationship between literature and criticism.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801827280
• ISBN13: 9780801827280
• Release Date: March 1985
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.9"