PREFACE
INTRIDUCTION
Chapter One Readers and Reading
1.New fortunes
2.Reading as a Woman
3.Sories of Reading
Chapter Two DECONSTRUCTION
1.Writing and Logocentrism
2.Meaning and Iterability
3.Grafts and Graft
4.Institutions and Inversions
5.Critical Consequences
Chapter Three DECONTTRUCTIVE CRITICISM
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
Among the most important developments in contemporary global cul-ture is the arrival of Western lierary criticism and literary theory in China.FLTRP is to be congratulated for its imagination
and foresight in making these crucial texts available to teachers and students of literature through-out China.There is arguably no greater force in producing understand-ing between people than
the transmission of literary traditions—the great heritage of narrative,lyric,and prose forms that give cultures their distinctive character.Literary criticism and theory stand at the
cross-roads of these transmissions.It is the body of writing that reflects on what a literature has meant to a culture.It investigates the moral,political,and experiential dimensions of
literary traditions,linking from to content,literature to history,the sensuous love of literature to analytic understanding.
The availability of these important texts will greatly help students and teachers to become acquainted with recent criticism and major critical theories and movements.I am convinced that the
series will make an important contribution to the literary education of China,increasing lit-eracy in new fields and international understanding at the same time.It is an extraordinarily timely
venture,at a time when comparative literary study in a global context has become increasingly important for professionals,and beyond that,for a general readership that seeks a deeper
understanding of literature.
W.J.T.Mitchell
Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor
English and Art History
University of Chicago
Editor,Critical Inquiry