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Five essential and challenging essays by leading post-modern theorists on the art and nature of interpretation: Jacques Derrida, Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman,

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This collection of essays examines a wide range of topics relating to deconstruction, which emerged in France as a reaction to structuralism but has found its g