The Barbara Johnson Reader: The Surprise of OthernessThis Reader collects in a single volume some of the most influential essays written by Barbara Johnson over the course of her thirty year career as a pioneering literary theorist and cultural critic. Johnson achieved renown early in her career, both as a brilliant student of the Yale School of literary criticism and as the translator of Jacques Derrida's Dissemination. She went on to lead the way in extending the insights of structuralism and