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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484457403321

Autore

Piskorski Rodolfo

Titolo

Derrida and textual animality : for a zoogrammatology of literature / / Rodolfo Piskorski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

3-030-51732-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIII, 272 p. 13 illus., 5 illus. in color.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature

Disciplina

809.93362

Soggetti

Animals in literature

Literature and morals

Literature - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Animal as Text, Text as Animal: On the Matter of Textuality -- 3. The Arche-Animal: Totemic Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis -- 4. The Thought-Fox: The Poetics of Animal Form -- 5. Transcending Signs: Becoming-Animal in Black Swan -- 6. Animal Supplementarity in Lispector’s The Apple in the Dark. .

Sommario/riassunto

Derrida and Textual Animality: For a Zoogrammatology of Literature analyses what has come to be known, in the Humanities, as ‘the question of the animal’, in relation to literary texts. Rodolfo Piskorski intervenes in the current debate regarding the non-human and its representation in literature, resisting popular materialist methodological approaches in the field by revisiting and revitalising the post-structuralist thought of Derrida and the ‘linguistic turn’. The book focuses on Derrida’s early work in order to frame deconstructive approaches to literature as necessary for a theory and practice of literary criticism that addresses the question of the animal, arguing that texts are like animals, and animals are like texts. While Derrida’s late writings have been embraced by animal studies scholars due to its overt focus on animality, ethics, and the non-human, Piskorski demonstrates the additional value of these early Derridean texts for the field of literary animal studies by proposing detailed



zoogrammatological readings of texts by Freud, Clarice Lispector, Ted Hughes, and Darren Aronofsky, while in dialogue with thinkers such as Butler, Kristeva, Genette, Deleuze and Guattari, and Attridge.