After Derrida / Nicholas Royle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Royle, Nicholas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism.

Derrida, Jacques.

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Deconstruction.

Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Literature.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xiv, 178 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, [1995]

Summary:

Nicholas Royle's groundbreaking study involves a range of seemingly heterogeneous topics: molluscs, surprise, multiple voices, absolute danger, telepathy, laughter, selfportraits, love, foreign bodies and ghosts. He discusses the work of Shakespeare and Wordsworth, Foucault and Freud, Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, Emily Dickinson, Helen Schjerfbect, Wallace Stevens and Samuel Beckett. The book has two primary aims: to present what Derrida has to say in relation to various subjects; and to offer different readings, beyond and after Derrida.

Contents:

Writing history : from new historicism to deconstruction

On literary criticism : writing in reserve

The remains of psychoanalysis (1) : telepathy

The remains of psychoanalysis (2) : Shakespeare

Philosophy and the ruins of deconstruction

Foreign body : "the deconstruction of a pedagogical institution and all that it implies"

On not reading : Derrida and Beckett.

Notes:

Collection of essays originally presented at conferences, some of which (ch. 5, 6, 8) were previously published in different form.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0719043786

0719043794

OCLC:

30739618