Derrida Quote by Harry Frankfurt

I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.

— Kate Atkinson

“The 1980s witnessed radical advances in the theorisation of the study of literature in the universities. It had begun in France in the 1960s…

— Geoffrey Harvey

At DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory of the…

— Nic Pizzolatto

Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.

— Margaret Atwood

Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I did modern English and American literature at Kent University, with no Chaucer and no Middle English: a perfect course.

— Gavin Esler

“The review L’Arc, meanwhile, wished to devote a complete issue to Derrida. Catherine Clément submitted a list of contributors in which there were more…

— Benoît Peeters

Shakespeare, who never could think up a plot by himself, found this one [Macbeth] in Holinshed's Chronicles, changing it just enough so that no…

— Richard Armour

David Milch, twice I got lectures from him about the theory of writing. I told my wife one night when I got home, 'I…

— W. Earl Brown

I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced…

— Kathy Acker

I've purposely stayed away from reading much about postmodern theory, and most everything I have read just bored me to tears. I don't think…

— Dave Eggers

I think part of the success which Structuralist or post-Structuralist thought in critical theory has had in literary studies in American universities is due…

— Susan Sontag