'...a book which should be read by all students contemplating enrolment for a university course in modern English or European literary studies.' - Roy Harris, Times Higher Education Supplement Eliot to Derrida is a sardonic portrait of the cult of the specialist interpreter, from I.A. Richards and the Cambridge School to Jacques Derrida and his disciples. This lucid, iconoclastic study shows how, and why, so much of the academic response to a rich variety of literary experiment has been straitjacketed by the vast industries which have grown up around `modernism' and `postmodernism'. For anyone disenchanted with the extravagant claims - and leaden prose - of literary theorists, this will be an exhilarating book.
- ISBN10 0312125593
- ISBN13 9780312125592
- Publish Date 1 June 1995 (first published 10 May 1995)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint St. Martin's Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 244
- Language English