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The Derrida Reader Jacques Derrida

The Derrida Reader By Jacques Derrida

The Derrida Reader by Jacques Derrida


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The Derrida Reader: Writing Performances by Jacques Derrida

In the English-speaking world, Jacques Derrida's writings have most influenced the discipline of literary studies. Yet what has emerged since the initial phase of Derrida's influence on the study of English literature, classed under the rubric of deconstruction, has often been disowned by Derrida. What, then, can Derrida teach us about literary language, about the rhetoric of literature, and about questions concerning style, form, and structure? The Derrida Reader draws together a number of Derrida's most interesting and idiosyncratic essays that treat literary language, the idea of the literary, and questions of poetics and poetry. The essays discuss single tropes or concepts, a figure such as metaphor, the ideas of titles and signatures, proper names, and Derrida's thinking on such subjects as undecidability or aporia. The editor's introduction is a demonstration in practice of how Derrida reads and how he adapts the act of reading to the text or figure in question. The introduction also outlines each essay's main points, its usefulness for reading literary texts, and its particular area of interest. The Derrida Reader thus provides students of literature with a focused, contextualized, and readily understandable volume.

About Jacques Derrida

Julian Wolfreys is a research fellow at the University of Dundee. He is the author of Being English: Narratives, Idioms, and Performances of National Identity from Coleridge to Trollope.

Table of Contents

PrefaceAcknowledgementsJustifying the Unjustifiable: a supplementary introduction1. Scribble: Writing Power2. The Battle of Proper Names (From Of Grammatology)3. The Originary Metaphor (From Of Grammatology)4. The Retrait of Metaphor5. The Time Before First (From Dissemination)6. From Specters of Marx (1994)7. From Memoirs of the Blind (1993)8. Logic of the Living Feminine (From Otobiographies)9. Qual Quelle: Valery's Sources (From Writing and Difference)10. Khora (From On the Name 1995)11. EconomimesisBibliography

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GOR007133880
9780803298071
0803298072
The Derrida Reader: Writing Performances by Jacques Derrida
Used - Very Good
Paperback
University of Nebraska Press
1998-08-01
312
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