Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. INTRODUCTION 1
4. Chapter One A Crisis in Undergraduate Literary Education at Yale: Lit X and the Literature Major 19
5. Chapter Two Evolution by Subversion: Vanguard Critics and Protodeconstruction 65
6. Chapter Three Deconstruction as a Pedagogical- Intellectual Project and the Burdens of Academic Criticism 125
7. Chapter Four Feminist Cultural Politics: The Brides of Deconstruction and Criticism 190
8. Chapter Five Speaking in Tongues: The de Man Affair and History with(out) Rhetoric 238
9. Epilogue: Don’t Dream It’s Over 291
10. Acknowledgments 299
11. Notes 303
12. Index 359