Ani, Miriam2016-02-192016-02-192004http://hdl.handle.net/11603/2293I attempted this essay last year while confronting my fundamental question about literary criticism: “why bother?” An interdisciplinary major, I have always been interested in pushing at the boundaries of the fields I study and I wanted to challenge myself to move beyond the tendency to tie up literature with the ribbons of tidy theories, encapsulating them into orderly packages. I had been reading Derrida’s Margins of Philosophy at the time and was taken by what he terms différance, which “exceeds the order of truth at a certain precise point.” For me this essay was a self-directed challenge and a very personal exercise to see if I could breathe life into Norris’s text by allowing it to speak for itself in all its contradictions and multiplicity.8 p.en-USCollection may be protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. To obtain information or permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Goucher Special Collections & Archives at 410-337-6347 or email archives@goucher.edu.Research -- Periodicals.Humanities -- Research -- Periodicals.Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals.Text