Critical Decade

In a series of trenchant case studies, this book examines that revolution that took place in literary criticism in the 1980s. Analzed are deconstruction and post-structuralism and the relationship between literature, society and politics. Discussed are Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, Jean-Paul Sartre, Raymond Williams, Terry Eagleton, Perry Anderson, Jonathon Culler, Robert Scholes, Stanley Fish, J. Hillis Miller, Edward Said and Frederic Jameson.