Crossing Borders: Reception Theory, Poststructuralism, Deconstruction

Throughout the eighties I set out to investigate various aspects of the transformations and difficulties of border crossings in numerous essays and reviews. I have gathered, reworked, and updated the results of my rather unsystematic procedures in this volume. What I found, in the most general terms, is that what matters most in the appropriation of a theory from a foreign country is how it fits into an already established constellation in the importing country. From Preface by the Author.

Robert C. Holub is chair of the German Department at the University of California, Berkeley.  He is the author of Reception Theory: A Critical Introduction and several other books.