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The Barbara Johnson Reader: The Surprise of Otherness
Barbara Johnson
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Description for The Barbara Johnson Reader: The Surprise of Otherness
Paperback. Offers a historical guide through the metamorphoses and tumultuous debates that have defined literary study in recent decades, as viewed by one of critical theory's most astute thinkers. Editor(s): Gonzalez, Bill Johnson; Feuerstein, Melissa; Valens, Keja. Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Num Pages: 488 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 652.
This Reader collects in a single volume some of the most influential essays written by Barbara Johnson over the course of her thirty-year career as a pioneering literary theorist and cultural critic. Johnson achieved renown early in her career, both as a brilliant student of the Yale School of literary criticism and as the translator of Jacques Derrida's Dissemination. She went on to lead the way in extending the insights of structuralism and poststructuralism into newly emerging fields now central to literary studies, fields such as gender studies, African American studies, queer theory, and law and literature. Stunning models of ... Read more
This Reader collects in a single volume some of the most influential essays written by Barbara Johnson over the course of her thirty-year career as a pioneering literary theorist and cultural critic. Johnson achieved renown early in her career, both as a brilliant student of the Yale School of literary criticism and as the translator of Jacques Derrida's Dissemination. She went on to lead the way in extending the insights of structuralism and poststructuralism into newly emerging fields now central to literary studies, fields such as gender studies, African American studies, queer theory, and law and literature. Stunning models of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
Series
A John Hope Franklin Center Book
Number of Pages
488
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822354192
SKU
V9780822354192
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About Barbara Johnson
Barbara Johnson (1947–2009) was Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature and Fredric Wertham Professor Emerita of Psychiatry and Law in Society at Harvard University. Melissa Feuerstein is a Research Associate at the Davis Center at Harvard University. Bill Johnson González is Assistant Professor of English at DePaul University. Lili Porten has taught in the writing programs ... Read more
Reviews for The Barbara Johnson Reader: The Surprise of Otherness
“Johnson’s real gift was to tackle the ‘dead white males’ of the canon and re-read them, looking for the women, ever alert to what she called ‘muteness envy’ in canonical poetry. She directed her attention to popular works, too, to films such as Thelma and Louise and The Piano, happy to bring Keats into the discussion as she did so. ... Read more