Challenging Theory: Discipline after Deconstruction (Studies in European Transition series, Volume I)

First edition, first impression.  viii, 180pp.  Black cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine.  8vo.  Small, minor indentation on upper panel, cloth gently rounded at corners and spine ends.  Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  In its original dust wrapper, very slightly bumped on extreme edges.  

A polemic in which Catherine Burgass warns against the movement to conflate literature teaching with cultural studies in British and American educational institutions.  Focussing on the theory of deconstruction, as developed by Derrida in the 1960s, the book redresses many misconceptions of Derrida’s book, tackles the important debate on approaches to humanities teaching and illuminates the impact of the work of critical theorists in the latter part of the 20th century.