Author: Johnson, Barbara
Title: A World of Difference
Description: Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1987. orig.cloth. 24x15cm, xii,225 pp.. Some pencilled underlinings & notes. Good. ¶ Contents: Introduction; Nothing Fails Like Success; Rigorous Unreliability;Is Writerliness Conservative?; Gender Theory and the Yale School; Deconstruction, Feminism, and Pedagogy; Significant Gaps: A Hound, a Bay Horse, and a Turtle Dove: Obscurity in "Walden"; Erasing Panama: Mallarmé and the Text of History; Teaching Ignorance: "L'Ecole des Femmes"; Poetic Differences: Strange Fits: Poe and Wordsworth on the Nature of Poetic Language; Disfiguring Poetic Language; Les Fleurs du Mal Armé: Some Reflections on Intertextuality; Other Inflections of Difference: Mallarmé as Mothert; My Monster / My Self; Metaphor, Metonymy, and Voice in "Their Eyes Were Watching God"; Thresholds of Difference: Structures of Address in Zora Neale Hurston; Apostrophe, Animation, and Abortion. Bibliography: p. 213-222; Includes index.

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