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Deconstruction

‘An inspiring and dazzling tour de force that revolutionised my

thinking’ Gary Day, Times Higher Education Supplement

Academic game? Dangerous weapon? The most important devel-

opment in twentieth-century literary studies? Setting out to shake

not only literary critical assumptions but the very foundations

of Western thought, deconstruction remains one of the most

controversial yet crucial strands of contemporary critical theory.

Since ﬁrst appearing in 1982, Deconstruction: Theory and Practice

has been acclaimed as by far the most readable, concise and

authoritative guide to this topic. While in no way oversimplifying its

complexity or glossing over the challenges it presents, Christopher

Norris’s book sets out to make deconstruction more accessible to

the open-minded reader. The volume focuses upon the texts of

Jacques Derrida which gave rise to this seismic shift in critical

thought, as well as the work of Paul de Man, Geoffrey Hartman, J.

Hillis Miller and Harold Bloom, the North American critics who have

taken Derrida’s project in their own directions.

Inherent in the very idea of deconstruction, however, is the need to

revisit, rethink, reassess. In this third, revised edition, Norris builds

upon his 1991 Afterword to add an entirely new Postcript, discuss-

ing the central topics and development in recent critical debate. The

Postscript includes an extensive list of recommended reading, com-

plementing what was already one of the most useful bibliographies

available. More than ever in this new edition, Deconstruction is the

book to revolutionize your thinking.

Christopher Norris is Distinguished Research Professor in Phil-

osophy at the University of Cardiff, Wales, having until 1991 taught

in the Cardiff English Department. He has also held fellowships and

visiting appointments at a number of institutions, including the Uni-

versity of California, Berkeley, the City University of New York and

Dartmouth College.

IN THE SAME SERIES

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Alternative Shakespeares: Volume 2 ed. Terence Hawkes

Critical Practice Catherine Belsey

Deconstruction: Theory and Practice Christopher Norris

Dialogue and Difference: English for the Nineties ed. Peter Brooker

and Peter Humm

The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Litera-

ture Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Grifﬁths and Helen Tifﬁn

Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion Rosemary Jackson

Dialogism: Bakhtin and his World Michael Holquist

Formalism and Marxism Tony Bennett

Making a Difference: Feminist Literary Criticism ed. Gayle Green and

Coppélia Kahn

Metaﬁction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction Patricia

Waugh

Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan

Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word Walter J. Ong

The Politics of Postmodernism Linda Hutcheon

Post-Colonial Shakespeares ed. Ania Loomba and Martin Orkin

Reading Television John Fiske and John Hartley

The Semiotics of Theatre and Drama Keir Elam

Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory Toril Moi

Structuralism and Semiotics Terence Hawkes

Studying British Cultures: An Introduction ed. Susan Bassnett

Subculture: The Meaning of Style Dick Hebdige

Telling Stories: A Theoretical Analysis of Narrative Fiction Steven

Cohan and Linda M. Shires

Translation Studies Susan Bassnett

Christopher

Norris

Deconstruction

Theory and Practice

3rd edition

London and New York

First published in 1982 by Methuen & Co. Ltd

Reprinted in 1986 with a revised bibliography

Revised edition ﬁrst published in 1991

by Routledge

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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

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Reprinted 1991, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2000

This edition ﬁrst published 2002

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This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004.

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