Derrida's Travels: Swift at Large in the Academy.(Critical Essay) From: Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation | Date: June 22, 2001| Author: Dokou, Christina | COPYRIGHT 2001 Texas Tech University Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

"I would like to live two hundred years and really enter the English literary tradition.... But, well, it's too late now."--Jacques Derrida (1)

"Given the manifest impossibility of considering Derrida's work to be straightforwardly 'philosophical'... how are we to place his writing, once the rather silly temptation to write it off as literature has been resisted?"--Geoffrey Bennington (2)

The aim of deconstruction being the critical subversion of sacrosanct ...