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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812954103321

Autore

Wolfreys Julian <1958->

Titolo

Occasional deconstructions [[electronic resource] /] / Julian Wolfreys

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State Universtiy of New York Press, c2004

ISBN

0-7914-8443-2

1-4237-4012-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (382 p.)

Disciplina

809/.04

Soggetti

Deconstruction

Literature, Modern - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-370) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Occasional Deconstructions -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Part One: FALSE STARTS -- 1. REFLECTING ON THE OCCASIONS OF INTRODUCTION: JUSTIFYING THE UNJUSTIFIABLE OR, BEGINNING AGAIN -- Part Two: IDENTITIES IN RUINS -- 2. UNCANNY TEMPORALITIES, HAUNTING OCCASIONS: SUNSET BOULEVARD -- 3. BIOGRAPHY'S RUINS: THE AFTERLIFE OF MARY SHELLEY -- 4. BETWEEN: SPECULATIONS -- Part Three: APPARITIONING -- 5. ETERNITY AND A DAY OR, AN "ENDLESS FOREWORD": TOUT DIRE -- 6. CITATION'S HAUNT: SPECTRES OF DERRIDA -- 7. OCCASIONS OF TRAUMA AND TESTIMONY: WITNESSING, MEMORY, AND RESPONSIBILITY -- Part Four: AFFIRMATIVE RESISTANCES -- 8. ORIGINS OF DECONSTRUCTION? DECONSTRUCTION, THAT WHICH ARRIVES (IF IT ARRIVES AT ALL) -- 9. HAUNTOLOGY OR THE POLITICAL? (OR, NO POLITICS, NOT NOW): ALWAYS ALREADY DECEIVED -- 10. LETTER TO MARTIN MCQUILLAN, CONCERNING "THE NEW INTERNATIONAL": THE INDELIBLE MARX OF HAUNTING -- Part Five: READING TO COME -- 11. GUILTY READING -- NOTES -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 -- CHAPTER 2 -- CHAPTER 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- CHAPTER 5 -- CHAPTER 6 -- CHAPTER 7 -- CHAPTER 8 -- CHAPTER 9 -- CHAPTER 10 -- CHAPTER 11 -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX OF PROPER NAMES.

Sommario/riassunto

Argues that deconstruction is not a critical methodology or theory but that which makes any act of good reading possible.