![]() ![]() ![]() At least the deconstructionists paid close attention to texts, as he did, unlike the real objects of his derision: what he called “ideologically opportunistic” theories that, taking a page from Marxism, saw literature as little more than a social construct to be analyzed alongside things like comic books and soap operas, and that criticized as hopelessly bourgeois the sort of close reading he performed. He was an ardent opponent of deconstruction, and in the late 1970s and early ’80s he wrote lengthy takedowns of its leading proponents, including Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man. His death was confirmed by his daughter Emma Donoghue, the novelist.įirst at University College Dublin and later at New York University, Professor Donoghue carved out a middle ground in the contested landscape of late-20th-century literary studies, standing opposed to both the politicized theories of the left and the traditionalist pieties of the right. Eliot and William Butler Yeats, and fierce aversion to the impositions of postmodern theory earned him a reputation as one of the last great humanist critics, died on April 6 at his home in Durham, N.C. ![]() Denis Donoghue, an Irish academic whose wide-ranging literary tastes, erudite analysis of poets like T.S. ![]()
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