Eliot to Derrida: The Poverty of Interpretation

'Eliot to Derrida' is a sardonic portrait of the cult of the specialist interpreter I.A. Richards and the Cambridge School to Jacques Derrida and his disciples. This lucid, iconoclastic study shows how and why, so much of the academic response to a rich variety of literary experiment has been straight-jacketed by the vast industries which have grown up around 'modernism' and 'postmodernism'.