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Against Deconstruction John Martin Ellis

Against Deconstruction By John Martin Ellis

Against Deconstruction by John Martin Ellis


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Summary

"The focus of any genuinely new piece of criticism or interpretation must be on the creative act of finding the new, but deconstruction puts the matter the other way around: its emphasis is on debunking the old. But aside from the fact that this program is inherently uninteresting, it is, in fact, not at all clear that it is possible."

Against Deconstruction Summary

Against Deconstruction by John Martin Ellis

"The focus of any genuinely new piece of criticism or interpretation must be on the creative act of finding the new, but deconstruction puts the matter the other way around: its emphasis is on debunking the old. But aside from the fact that this program is inherently uninteresting, it is, in fact, not at all clear that it is possible...[T]he naivete of the crowd is deconstruction's very starting point, and its subsequent move is as much an emotional as an intellectual leap to a position that feels different as much in the one way as the other..." --From the book

Against Deconstruction Reviews

"Ellis argues with force and clarity... [He] concludes that what Deconstruction provides is largely an emotional bonus--it gives its adherents 'a routine way to a feeling of being excitedly shocking.' They get the feeling that might attend a genuine piece of original thinking, but here it can be achieved without comparable effort."--London Review of Books

Additional information

GOR004270158
9780691014845
0691014841
Against Deconstruction by John Martin Ellis
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Princeton University Press
1990-02-01
184
N/A
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