About the Book: Identity Of Literature: A Reply To Jacques Derrida
This is the first book of its kind which questions Derridas view of literature
levelling all distinctions between literature and other disciplines. Setting
forth those features of literature which mark it off from non-literature, the
author argues that Derridas deconstruction is enshrined in a flawed view of
language. Pleading stridently for a twofold division of language and drawing
extensively on the philosophers and the linguists who support it, the author has
advanced a fresh approach to literature as well as other disciplines. It is a
defence of literature, and by implication, of logic and truth,