Occasional deconstructions / Julian Wolfreys.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolfreys, Julian, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deconstruction.

Literature, Modern--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (382 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State Universtiy of New York Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Argues that deconstruction is not a critical methodology or theory but that which makes any act of good reading possible.

Contents:

Intro

Occasional Deconstructions

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

Part One: FALSE STARTS

1. REFLECTING ON THE OCCASIONS OF INTRODUCTION: JUSTIFYING THE UNJUSTIFIABLE OR, BEGINNING AGAIN

Part Two: IDENTITIES IN RUINS

2. UNCANNY TEMPORALITIES, HAUNTING OCCASIONS: SUNSET BOULEVARD

3. BIOGRAPHY'S RUINS: THE AFTERLIFE OF MARY SHELLEY

4. BETWEEN: SPECULATIONS

Part Three: APPARITIONING

5. ETERNITY AND A DAY OR, AN "ENDLESS FOREWORD": TOUT DIRE

6. CITATION'S HAUNT: SPECTRES OF DERRIDA

7. OCCASIONS OF TRAUMA AND TESTIMONY: WITNESSING, MEMORY, AND RESPONSIBILITY

Part Four: AFFIRMATIVE RESISTANCES

8. ORIGINS OF DECONSTRUCTION? DECONSTRUCTION, THAT WHICH ARRIVES (IF IT ARRIVES AT ALL)

9. HAUNTOLOGY OR THE POLITICAL? (OR, NO POLITICS, NOT NOW): ALWAYS ALREADY DECEIVED

10. LETTER TO MARTIN MCQUILLAN, CONCERNING "THE NEW INTERNATIONAL": THE INDELIBLE MARX OF HAUNTING

Part Five: READING TO COME

11. GUILTY READING

NOTES

CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER 4

CHAPTER 5

CHAPTER 6

CHAPTER 7

CHAPTER 8

CHAPTER 9

CHAPTER 10

CHAPTER 11

WORKS CITED

INDEX OF PROPER NAMES.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-370) and index.

ISBN:

9780791484432

0791484432

9781423740124

1423740122

OCLC:

62756780