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This collection of essays examines a wide range of topics relating to deconstruction, which emerged in France as a reaction to structuralism but has found its greatest response in America, where literary critics have built on its basic assumptions to create a new critical movement.

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Introduction

Rajnath A

1-9

From theory to thematics

Krieger Murray

10-31

Construing and deconstructing

Abrams M. H.

32-67

The new criticism and deconstruction

Rajnath A

68-92

Samuel Johnson among the deconstructionists

Hagstrum Jean H.

93-104

Philosophy, theory and the "contest of faculties"

Norris Christopher

105-122

The Marxism deconstruction debate in literary theory

Ryan Michael

123-137

Deconstructive philosophy and imaginal psychology

Vannoy Adams Michael

138-157

Deconstruction and American poetry

Patke Rajeev

158-179

The anxiety of American deconstruction

Felperin Howard

180-196

The post-turn turn

Orr Leonard

197-212

Setzung and Übersetzung

Gasché Rodolphe

213-252

The lateral dance

Leitch Vincent B.

253-270

Hartman and Derrida

Culler Jonathan

271-277