This just in

[hankhank at ccwf.cc.utexas.edu]

On Tue, 12 Nov 1996 LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU wrote:
> DOUBLE READING: POSTMODERNISM AFTER DECONSTRUCTION by Jeffrey T. Nealon
> (Cornell U Press).
> The blurb on it sez:
> "Basing his approach on Derrida's notion of 'double reading,' JTN looks
> beyond the apparent fall of deconstruction and shows that its insights
> continue to play a role in postmodernist critical debates.  Nealon
> centers his discussion on the American reception of Derrida and Foucault,
> and surveys criticism of the language poets and Thomas Pynchon's
> GRAVITY'S RAINBOW."

Actually the book came out a couple of years ago already; I surmise
that it is now out in paperback. It's worth reading, but somehow the
chapter on _GR_ was disappointing between quite good (and relatively
'clear', let it be added) chapters on the two Frenchmen, Sukenick, 
l poets, critique of Thomas McCarthy's clumsy Habermasian critiques, etc.
(Then again, when it comes Habermas, it so easy to criticize him that
one would start feeling sorry for him if he just wasn't so eager to
repetitively promote his ignorance. Couldn't _Lot 49_ be seen as a
proto-satire of Habermas's philosophy of distinct & cosy 'communicative
spheres' that would exist outside nasty & instrumental technospheres,
undisturbed by them?)

Heikki