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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...
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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 sch
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Contents; Key to Brief Titles; Preface; Introduction; PART I; Variations on Authority: Some Deconstructive Transformations of the New Criticism; The Domestication of Derrida; PART II; Aesthetic Criticism: Geoffrey Hartman; J. Hillis Miller: The Other Victorian at Yale; Error in Paul de Man; The Genius of Irony: Nietzsche in Bloom; PART III; History, Theory, and Influence: Yale Critics as Readers of Maurice Blanchot; Joining the Text: From Heidegger to Derrida; Afterword; Bibliography; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z;