Culler and Deconstruction
Gerald Graff, 3 September 1981
The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction
by Jonathan Culler.
Routledge, 256 pp., £7.95, July 1981,0 7100 0757 4 Show More
by Jonathan Culler.
Routledge, 256 pp., £7.95, July 1981,
“... an apologist for the post-structuralist critical modes typified by the work of Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida, yet he writes without the supercilious tone of the former or the soporific word-play of the latter. Nor does Culler indulge in cheap vilification of opponents, suggesting that unwillingness to buy the whole post-structuralist bill of goods ... ”