Signature Pieces On The Institution Of Authorship

Author: Peggy Kamuf

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Price : $14.00 NZD
ISBN : 9780801422096
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Imprint : Cornell University Press
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Weight (g) : 0.028
Publication date : 01 October 1988
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Author : Peggy Kamuf
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Language : English
Reading Level : very good
Pages : 252
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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 investiga

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