Literary criticism as such can perhaps be called the art of rereading.

Again, at the end of this collection of essays, the tensions played out in
the trajectories between presence(s) and absence(s) form not only the textualizing but
also the re-readings of the poetry under analysis. An introduction can but
(fore)shadow the delicate operation of such interplays.

Notes

1. Barbara Johnson. The Critical Difference. Essays in the ContemporaryRhetoric of
Reading, Baltimore and London, the Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980, p.x

2. Michel Foucault ¹Nietzsche, Genealogy, History¹, The Foucault Reader, ed. Paul
Rabinow, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1984, p.88.

3. Jacques Derrida. Writing and Difference, trans. A. Bass, London, Routledge &
KeganPaul, 1972,p.292.

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