Signature Pieces : On the Institution of Authorship.
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English. |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2018.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (252 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1501726358 9781501726354 |