The Critical Difference. Essays in the Contemporary Rhetoric of Reading by Johnson, Barbara - (1980)

Slight corner bump, minor rubbing, VG., dustwrapper Comparative literature Johns Hopkins Univ. Press Baltimore (1980) orig.boards 23x15cm, xii, 156 pp Contents: Sexuality & Difference: The Critical Difference: Barthes/Balzac; Allegory's Trip-Tease: 'The White Waterlily'; Poetry & Difference: Poetry &its Double: Two 'Invitations au voyage'; Poetry & Performative Language: Mallarme and Austin; Poetry and Syntax: What the Gypsy Knew; Difference in the Act: Melville's Fist: The Execution of 'Billy Budd'; The Frame of Reference: Poe, Lacan, Derrida.