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Beckett, Derrida, and the event of literature / Asja Szafraniec.
LIBRA PR6003.E282 Z8375 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Szafraniec, Asja.
- Series:
- Cultural memory in the present
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989--Criticism and interpretation.
- Beckett, Samuel.
- Derrida, Jacques.
- Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989.
- Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- Literature.
- Authorship--Psychological aspects.
- Authorship.
- Literature--Philosophy.
- Deconstruction.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- 246 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- Beckett, Derrida, and the Event of Literature explores the late Jacques Derrida's notion of literature. Starting with Derrida's self-professed inability to comment on the work of Samuel Beckett, whom Derrida nevertheless considered one of the most interesting and exemplary writers of our time, Asja Szafraniec argues that the shared feature of literary works as Derrida understands them is a double, juridical-economical gesture, and that one aspect of this notion (the juridical) is more hospitable to Beckett's oeuvre than the other. She then discusses other contemporary philosophical approaches to Beckett, including those of Gilles Deleuze, Stanley Cavell, and Alain Badiou. The book offers an innovative analysis of Derrida's approach to literature, as well as an overview of current philosophical approaches to contemporary literature, and a number of innovative readings of Beckett's work.
- Contents:
- The question of literature
- A singular odyssey
- Beckett, Derrida, and the ordinary
- Beckett's "exhausted" archives
- Singular points of transaction (I): the subject
- Singular points of transaction (II): "what are poets for?" the authority of literature
- Singular points of transaction (III): "wanting in inanity." Negativity, language and "God" in Beckett.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-239) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804754569
- 080475456X
- 9780804754576
- 0804754578
- OCLC:
- 82286825
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