EPZ Deconstruction and Criticism (Continuum Impacts, 37)

Five essential and challenging essays by leading post-modern theorists on the art and nature of interpretation: Jacques Derrida, Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, Paul de Man, and J. Hillis Miller.

Harold Bloom (b. 1930) is Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University, Berg Professor at New York University, and a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. He is the author of more than twenty books, including The Anxiety of Influence; Deconstruction and Criticism; The Book of J; The Western Canon; Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human; and Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?

Jacques Derrida was Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociale in Paris, a seminal philosopher of the 20th century, and author of a series of extraordinarily influential works.