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Deconstruction and Criticism

Five essential and challenging essays by leading post-modern theorists on the art and nature of interpretation: Jacques Derrida, Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, Paul de Man, and J. Hillis Miller.

Subject
literary criticismphilosophysocial science
Setting
20th centurycollege
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 224 pages
Form
essays

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