Exteriority and Appropriation
Foucault, Derrida, and the Discipline of Literary Criticism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12131054 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeffrey T Nealon (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Issue | 21 |
| Pages | 97-97 |
| Publication date | 1992-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Critique (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0882-4371 • E-ISSN: 1460-2458 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1354118 |
| OpenAlex | W2325740715 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 7 |
In the past decade, Michel Foucault's thought has been gaining increasing currency in literature departments in the United States. If one were to plot schematically the rise and fall of theories in literature departments, one could easily tie the rise of Foucault's genealogical discourse to the fall of another contemporary French discourse, Jacques Derrida's deconstruction; in fact, Foucault's thought first comes on the American literary critical scene thematized as a socially and institutionally engaged alternative to what many politically oriented critics saw as the paralyzing textualism of Derrida and his disciples at Yale. Raman Selden gives a representative account of the debate in A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory
Aesthetics · Appropriation · Art · Criticism · Epistemology · Literary criticism · Literature · Sociology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0.06 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 2025 (31) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |