The Yale Critics
The Yale Critics
Univ Of Minnesota Press | July 18, 1983 | ISBN-10: 0816612064 | 260 pages | PDF | 12.9 MB
Univ Of Minnesota Press | July 18, 1983 | ISBN-10: 0816612064 | 260 pages | PDF | 12.9 MB
A heated debate has been raging in North America in recent years over the form and function of literature. At the center of the fray is a group of critics teaching at Yale University—Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, Paul de Man, and J. Hillis Miller—whose work can be described in relation to the deconstructive philosophy practiced by French philosopher Jacques Derrida. For over a decade the Yale Critics have aroused controversy; most often they are considered as a group, to be applauded or attacked, rather than as individuals whose ideas merit critical scrutiny. Here a new generation of scholars attempts for the first time a serious, broad assessment of the Yale group. These essays appraise the Yale Critics by exploring their roots, their individual careers, and the issues they introduce.