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A World of Difference

A World of Difference

A World of Difference Softcover (stiff card) - 1991

by Barbara Johnson

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Johns Hopkins University Press, London, 1991. Edition Unstated. Softcover (Stiff Card). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. In this book, the author extends and rethinks the theoretical perspectives on literature opened up by her earlier book, The Critical Difference, through subtle and probing analyses of texts by various authors, such as Wordsworth and Poe. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Essays & Literary Criticism; ISBN: 0801837456. ISBN/EAN: 9780801837456. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 18191. . 9780801837456
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  • Title A World of Difference
  • Author Barbara Johnson
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Edition Unstated
  • Condition Used - Very Good Condition
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press, London
  • Publication date 1991
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 18191
  • ISBN 9780801837456 / 0801837456
  • Weight 0.77 lbs (0.35 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 5.93 x 0.65 in (22.86 x 15.06 x 1.65 cm)
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 86046286
  • Dewey Decimal Code 801.95
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

Is a willingness to carry an inquiry to the point of undecidability necessarily at odds with political engagement? In A World of Difference Barbara Johnson extends and rethinks the theoretical perspectives on literature opened up by her earlier book, The Critical Difference. Through subtle and probing analyses of texts by Wordsworth, Poe, Baudelaie, Mallarm, Thoreau, Mary Shelley, Zora Neale HUrston, Gwendolyn Brooks, and others, she attempts to transfer the analysis of "difference" from the realm of linguistic universality or deconstructive allegory into contexts in which difference is very much at issue in the world. New to the paperback edition is a preface that readdresses the question of the politics of deconstruction in the context of current discussion about the life and works of Paul de Man.

About the author

Barbara Johnson is professor of French and comparative literature at Harvard University. She is author of Dfigurations du langage potique and translator of Jacques Derrida's La Dissmination.

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