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Signature Pieces : On the Institution of Authorship / Peggy Kamuf.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kamuf, Peggy, author.
- en Book Program, National Endowment for the Humanities Op, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Authorship.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (237 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Cornell University Press 2018
- Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Peggy Kamuf is Marion Frances Chevalier Professor of French and Professor of French and Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. She is the author of The Division of Literature, or the University in Deconstruction and To Follow: The Wake of Jacques Derrida.
- Summary:
- Some contemporary approaches to literature still accept the separation of historical, biographical, external concerns from formal, internal ones. On the borderline that lends this division between inside and outside its apparent coherence is signature. In Peggy Kamuf's view, studying signature will help us to rediscover some of the stakes of literary writing beyond the historicist/formalist opposition. Drawing on Derrida's extensive work on signatures and proper names, Kamuf investigates authorial signature in key writers from Rousseau to Woolf, as well as the implications of signature for the institutions of authorship and criticism.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- INTRODUCTION. A Single Line Divided
- PART I. ROUSSEAU AND THE MODERN SIGNATURE
- CHAPTER ONE. The Name of a Problem
- CHAPTER TWO. Contracting the Signature
- CHAPTER THREE. Author of a Crime
- CHAPTER FOUR. Seeing through Rousseau
- CONCLUSION. End piece
- PART II. NO ONE SIGNS FOR THE OTHER
- CHAPTER FIVE. Baudelaire au feminin
- CHAPTER SIX. Penelope at Work
- PART III. RESISTANCE THEORIES
- CHAPTER SEVEN. Floating Authorship
- CHAPTER EIGHT. Pieces of Resistance
- Works Cited
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 15. Jun 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9781501726361
- 1501726366
- 9781501726354
- 1501726358
- OCLC:
- 1028950596
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