To understand some of the puzzling trends in recent American literature, it helps to have a basic knowledge of the so-called “post-structuralist” theory that took hold in U.S. English departments in ...

Some of Derrida’s early essays are critiques of structuralist theory. And finally, there was the influence of modernist literature, such as the work of Stéphane Mallarmé, whose poetry in French is ...

It is shown that the criteria of T-theoreticity proposed by Balzer and Gähde lead to strongly counterintuitive and in this sense 'paradoxical' results: most of the obviously empirical or at least ...