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The Barbara Johnson Reader
This Reader collects in a single volume some of the most influential essays written by Barbara Johnson over the course of her thirty-year career as a pioneering literary theorist and cultural critic. Johnson achieved renown early in her career, both as a brilliant student of the Yale School of literary criticism and as the translator of Jacques Derrida's Dissemination. She went on to lead the way in extending the insights of structuralism and poststructuralism into newly emerging fields now central to literary studies, fields such as gender studies, African American studies, queer theory, and law and literature. Stunning models of critical reading and writing, her essays cultivate rigorous q...
Persons and Things
Moving effortlessly between symbolist poetry and Barbie dolls, artificial intelligence and Kleist, Kant, and Winnicott, Barbara Johnson not only clarifies psychological and social dynamics; she also re-dramatizes the work of important tropes—without ever losing sight of the ethical imperative with which she begins: the need to treat persons as persons. In Persons and Things, Johnson turns deconstruction around to make a fundamental contribution to the new aesthetics. She begins with the most elementary thing we know: deconstruction calls attention to gaps and reveals that their claims upon us are fraudulent. Johnson revolutionizes the method by showing that the inanimate thing exposed as a...
Pushing the High Note
From the glass-shattering soprano wit of artist-poet Barbara Johnson Chase comes this low-key/high decibel trove of art and verse: PUSHING THE HIGH NOTE. Brain-fusing the magic realism of Nobel winning artist-poet Gunter Grass (Show Your Tongue) and the tummy-tickling word winks of U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins (Sailing Alone Around the Room), this humoresque is truly ophthalmic arpeggio for the frontal lobes. From the visual music of Audition's "the old cage elevator" rattling to a stop, to the ocular barcarolle of a Viking Princess gliding about, an "oak leaf as her vessel," to the goggled capriccios of Harley Man's "tattooed charm on my left forearm" and the waxed mustache whimsy of Monocle Max, PUSHING THE HIGH NOTE is nothing less than cache-with-cachet - a thought-pourri of art and verse for serious collectors. One that vibrates . . . before it explodes.
When Your Child Breaks Your Heart
Beloved author Barbara Johnson offers hope to families facing difficulty coming to terms with a child's decisions in life, sharing how God brought her through the deep waters--and how he will do the same for them.
The Best Devotions of Barbara Johnson
If Barbara Johnson has brought comfort to thousands of women, it’s not because her life has been comfortable. Barbara has known more heartbreak than most of us ever will. But that is why her encouragement truly inspires, why her humor makes us smile, and why her insightfulness can move us to tears. Through thick and thin, Barbara has held onto God--and so she is uniquely qualified to help us see how God holds onto us and won’t let go, no matter what life dishes out.The sixty selections in this book represent the cream of Barbara’s devotional crop. Kick your shoes off, settle back, and unwind. Or give this book to someone you know who would enjoy a chuckle, a reflective pause, an "Aha!" moment, maybe even a tear. Insights and encouragement lie within--and more than a few grins!
The Feminist Difference
Employing surprising juxtapositions, THE FEMINIST DIFFERENCE looks at fiction by black writers from a feminist/psychoanalytic perspective, at poetry, and at feminism and law. The author presents an unfailingly close reading of moments at which feminism seems to founder in its own contradictions--and moments that reemerge as sources of a revitalized critical awareness. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
A Lady of Fashion
Here is a unique window into 18th-century English life, into a privileged world of fashion, country houses, and travel as it was experienced and recorded by Barbara Johnson. 122 illustrations, 93 in color.
The Critical Difference
Barbara Johnson investigates the significant and illuminating ways in which both literature and criticism ate "critically different" from what they purport to be. Her subtle and provocative studies of Balzac, Mallarme, Baudelaire, Apollinaire, Melville, Poe, Bathes, Lacan, Austin, and Derrida take a refreshing new approach to the fundamental questions of meaning, interpretation, and the relationship between literature and criticism. In each of seven essays, a clear, precise, and detailed reading of the rhetoric of one of more literary or critical works reveals the text's fundamental discrepancies, ambuquities, and contradictions. If rhetoric is seen as language's capacity to differ from literal statement, and if "to differ" can also mean "to disagree," then the reading of the rhetoric of literature and theory here is an attempt to capture the logic of a text's own disagreement with itself.
Picnic on the Print
From the Paris-gilded imagination of artist-poet Barbara Johnson Chase comes this bon vivant collector's frisson: PICNIC ON THE PRINT. In amuse-bouche analogous to J. R. R. Tolkien's self-illustrated rendering of The Hobbit, each double-page tableaux elicits a double take; each double entendre flambé a second thought. From à la carte delicacies like Vine Dweller's "see her swinging gently on a hammock full of peas" (à la Beatrix Potter's art-and-verse) to word-grilled Compliment's "chic-to-cheek" scarf (à la Lewis Carroll's interplays), between the obvious and the understated. A palette of optical word plays for frontal cortexes pining for the piquant. Chef-d'oeuvre for eyes; plat du jour for brain cells.
Difference
This special issue of differences celebrates the work of the contemporary feminist literary critic and theorist Barbara Johnson, whose work has been revolutionary in foregrounding concepts of "difference." Johnson's is a unique method of literary reading in which literature becomes, in her words, "a mode of cultural work, the work of giving-to-read those impossible contradictions that cannot yet be spoken." The contributors to this issue recognize that one of Johnson's primary gifts to literary studies is her ability to teach theoretical insights, not in a pedagogically prescriptive or didactic way, but through her exquisitely close readings of texts that illustrate the force of theory and l...
