Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1031161 in Books
• Published on: 1988-11
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .65" h x 5.93" w x 9.00" l, .77 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

From Library Journal
Johnson's form here is the short critical essaywitty, elliptical, provocative. This doesn't mean she avoids weighty subjects. We find shrewd defences of deconstruction; a variety of approachesnuanced, challenging, sometimes reconditeto the feminine; other studies on the marginality of writing (e.g., Zora Neale Hurston); and continuing explorations of the Symbolist aesthetic. Throughout, Johnson foregrounds a major preoccupation of recent theory: "Is a willingness to carry an inquiry to the point of undecidability necessarily at odds with political engagement?" In meeting this challenge she is led beyond formalism to "a much messier form of bricolage," a style that runs certain risks but that is here justified by a consistent seriousness and commitment. Alexander Gelley, English & Comparative Literature Dept., Univ. of California, Irvine
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Review
Dazzling and fun, from the memorial to the formidable (or should I say notorious?) Paul de Man, which introduces the possibility of feminist deconstruction, to the revisions and re-readings of motherhood as a nearly untenable discursive position. Voice Literary Supplement Dazzling and fun, from the memorial to the formidable (or should I say notorious?) Paul de Man, which introduces the possibility of feminist deconstruction, to the revisions and re-readings of motherhood as a nearly untenable discursive position. Voice Literary Supplement