Difference

Difference is one of the most influential critical concepts of recent decades and in this book Mark Currie offers a comprehensive account of the history of the term and its place in some of the most influential schools of theory of the past four decades, including: post-structuralism; deconstruction; new historicism; psychoanalysis; French feminism; postcolonialism. Employing literary case studies throughout, Difference provides an accessible introduction to a term at the heart of today´s critical idiom.