I am a Cretan
Patrick Parrinder, 21 April 1988
On Modern Authority: The Theory and Condition of Writing, 1500 to the Present Day
by Thomas Docherty.
Harvester, 310 pp., £25, May 1987,0 7108 1017 2 Show More
by Thomas Docherty.
Harvester, 310 pp., £25, May 1987,
The Order of Mimesis: Balzac, Stendhal, Nerval, Flaubert
by Christopher Prendergast.
Cambridge, 288 pp., £27.50, March 1986,0 521 23789 0 Show More
by Christopher Prendergast.
Cambridge, 288 pp., £27.50, March 1986,
“... probity that goes with it. The deconstructionist, more often than not, is a self-conscious outlaw. Thomas Docherty in On Modern Authority takes up the pose of the Noble Robber and gleefully uncovers an etymological affinity between criticism and crime. His aim is to redistribute textual power and authority to the dispossessed ‘readers and ... ”