Deconstructions : a user's guide /

This "user's guide" to deconstruction contains 15 essays by such leading critics and scholars in the field as J. Hillis Miller and Jacques Derrida. The essays provide much information, have both a general and special focus, and cover topics that range in time from the Greeks to the present and beyond the Western world. Royle (Univ. of Sussex, UK) introduces the collection with an excellent essay, "What Is Deconstruction?" and the collection ends with Derrida's "Et Cetera," which emphasizes the open nature of the strategy of deconstruction. Individual essays view deconstruction from the points of view of cultural studies, drugs, ethics, feminism, fiction, film, hermeneutics, love, poetry, postcolonialism, psychoanalysis, technology, and weaving. This book provides excellent, useful, handbook-type conceptual and critical information of value to upper-division undergraduates and graduate students in a variety of disciplines and to professionals in a variety of professions. W. B. Warde Jr.; University of North Texas