Difference

✍ Scribed by Mark Currie

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 156
• Series: The New Critical Idiom
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Difference is one of the most influential critical concepts of recent decades. Mark Currie offers a comprehensive account of the history of the term and its place in some of the most influential schools of theory of the past four decades, including:

* post-structuralism * deconstruction * new historicism * psychoanalysis * French feminism * postcolonialism.

Employing literary case studies throughout, Difference provides an accessible introduction to a term at the heart of today's critical idiom.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Series Editor's Preface......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Introduction: Identity and difference......Page 12
Difference and reference......Page 32
Differance......Page 56
Different histories......Page 78
Cultural difference......Page 96
Difference and equivalence......Page 116
GLOSSARY......Page 142
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 148
INDEX......Page 154