- Malcolm Cowley and Ford
Maddox Ford: The
Eater of Darkness = Dada
- Dada easy to dismiss
- "blah-blah"
- "flap-doodle"
- Cowley: Coates
didn't want to be famous
- "success distressed
us"
- gaps in production
- not interested in
business of being a successful, famous novelist
- Deconstruction didn't
exist 1925-1959
- 1966- Derrida
publishes
"Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences"
- mid-1980s
connections locked between Derrida and literary theory
- Pierce won't use "postmodern"
but...
- 1920s-1930s
readers & critics not interested in
"form, signification, realism, culture, commodification"
- Moderns shunned "fiction
about writers worried about writing"
Works
Cited