Beyond Textualism
Christopher Norris, 19 January 1984
Text Production
by Michael Riffaterre, translated by Terese Lyons.
Columbia, 341 pp., $32.50, September 1983,0 231 05334 7 Show More
by Michael Riffaterre, translated by Terese Lyons.
Columbia, 341 pp., $32.50, September 1983,
Writing and the Experience of Limits
by Philippe Sollers, edited by David Hayman, translated by Philip Barnard.
Columbia, 242 pp., $31.50, September 1983,0 231 05292 8 Show More
by Philippe Sollers, edited by David Hayman, translated by Philip Barnard.
Columbia, 242 pp., $31.50, September 1983,
The Reach of Criticism: Method and Perception in Literary Theory
by Paul Fry.
Yale, 239 pp., £18, October 1984,0 300 02924 1 Show More
by Paul Fry.
Yale, 239 pp., £18, October 1984,
Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism
by Paul de Man, edited by Wlad Godzich.
Methuen, 308 pp., £7.50, November 1983,0 416 35860 8 Show More
by Paul de Man, edited by Wlad Godzich.
Methuen, 308 pp., £7.50, November 1983,
Displacement: Derrida and After
edited by Mark Krupnick.
Indiana, 198 pp., £9.75, December 1983,0 253 31803 3 Show More
edited by Mark Krupnick.
Indiana, 198 pp., £9.75, December 1983,
Authoritarian Fictions: The Ideological Novel as a Literary Genre
by Susan Rubin Suleiman.
Columbia, 299 pp., £39, August 1983,0 231 05492 0 Show More
by Susan Rubin Suleiman.
Columbia, 299 pp., £39, August 1983,
“... One gets the impression from Riffaterre’s book that he enjoys playing single-minded hedgehog to the foxy representatives of Parisian post-structuralist fashion. Despite some fairly arcane terminology, he is basically an old-style formalist whose forays into theory are largely in the service of traditional interpretative ends. The literary text, for Riffaterre, is an object of patient and erudite close-reading, a ‘monument’ whose utterly distinctive character the critic sets out to describe and explain ... ”
