Acts of Literature
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Author | Jacques Derrida |
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Subject | Literature |
Published | 1991 |
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Pages | 472 |
Acts of Literature is a 1991 philosophical and literary book based on essays by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida. The book is the first collection of Derrida's essays on Western-culture literary texts. Derek Attridge edited the book in close association with Derrida himself.
Summary
Derrida discusses authors such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Stéphane Mallarmé, James Joyce, William Shakespeare, and Franz Kafka.
Influence
A part highly cited by scholars is the chapter dedicated to James Joyce: ‘Ulysses’ Gramophone: Hear Say Yes In Joyce. (pp. 253–309).[citation needed]
Editions
- 1st edition published by Routledge, November 20, 1991. ISBN 978-0-415-90057-7.
References
- Review by Nick Groom (1995) The Modern Language Review, Vol. 90, No. 3 (Jul., 1995), pp. 726–728 doi:10.2307/3734331
- Review by Wheeler, Kathleen M. Journal of European Studies, September, 1993
- Burns, Christy (1999) Joyce's significance for Derrida Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Fall 1999
- Roughley, ALAN (1999) Reading Derrida Reading Joyce (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999), p. 176
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Jacques Derrida
- Positions (1972)
- "The Rhetoric of Drugs" (1989)
- Points...: Interviews, 1974–1994 (1995)
- "Cogito and the History of Madness" (1963)
- "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences" (1966)
- Of Grammatology (1967)
- Speech and Phenomena (1967)
- Writing and Difference (1967)
- Margins of Philosophy (1972)
- Glas (1974)
- The Post Card (1980)
- Limited Inc. (1988)
- Right to Philosophy (1990)
- Acts of Literature (1991)
- Specters of Marx (1993)
- Archive Fever (1995)
- Ethics, Institutions, and the Right to Philosophy (2002)
- The Animal That Therefore I Am (2008)
- Deconstruction
- Différance
- Hauntology
- Template:Hauntology
- Kettle logic
- Phallogocentrism
- Phonocentrism
- Logocentrism
- Metaphysics of presence
- Free play
- Citationality
- Marguerite Aucouturier
- Gadamer–Derrida debate
- Sokal affair
- Ghost Dance (film)
- Derrida
- The Reception of Derrida
- Searle–Derrida debate