New Perspectives on Structuralism, Poststructuralism et al

Among the contemporary alternative critical
readings on structuralism and poststructuralism
that stand out are the following:-
1 Wendell V. Harris: Literary Meaning - Reclaiming the Study
of Literature (New York Univ. Press, 1996)
2 Wendell V. Harris (ed): Beyond Poststructuralism - The Speculations of Theory and the Experience of Literature (Penn State University Press, 1996)
3 Leonard Jackson: The Poverty of Structuralism
(Longman Group UK Ltd., 1991)
4 Eugene Goodheart: The Sceptic Disposition -
Deconstruction, Ideology, and Other Matters
(Princeton Univ. Press, 1984)
5 J. Arac, W. Godzich, W. Martin, (eds.): The Yale Critics -
Deconstruction in America (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1983)

Prof. Harris' book on Literary Meaning is impressively cogent in
tracing crucial flaws in the deconstructionist argument; as he explains
in the introduction to his book:
Deconstruction is no longer the magic word, many a recent essay and
review tells us, and Derrida no longer the infallible prophet. For those
of us who have felt that the trick of turning lead into gold is interesting
but hardly profitable, that is good news.
However, eristic strategies and fallacious forms of argument to which
deconstruction and related movements have accustomed us continue to
litter the intellectual landscape. One finds the same journals that announce
the decline and fall of deconstruction still cluttered by deconstructive
vocabulary and tricks of argument. I make no apology for wishing to
contribute to the unfinished business of pushing certain intellectual debris
out of the way. (Literary Meanining, 1996: 5)

His book on poststructuralism is a collection of essays penned by a number of prominent literary scholars providing a wide-ranging antidote to the "disabling confusions of current literary theory" serving to hasten the decline of poststructuralist dominance.