Acts of Literature

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Acts of Literature is a philosophical and literary book based on essays by Jacques Derrida. This 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. Among the discussed authors there are Rousseau, Stéphane Mallarmé, Joyce, Shakespeare, and Kafka.

A part highly cited by scholars is the chapter dedicated to James Joyce: ‘Ulysses’ Gramophone: Hear Say Yes In Joyce. (pp. 253-309).

[edit] Editions

  • 1st edition published by Routledge, November 20, 1991. 472 pages. ISBN-10: 0415900573. ISBN-13 978-0415900577
  • Google books page: [1]

[edit] 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), pp. 176
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Jacques Derrida
Interviews collections
Positions (1972) · The Rhetoric of Drugs (1989) · Points de suspension. Entretiens (1992) · Points: Interviews 1974-1994 (1995)
Essays

Early: The Problem of Genesis in Husserl's Philosophy (1953) · Introduction to Husserl's The Origin of Geometry (1962)

1967: Of Grammatology · Speech and Phenomena · Writing and Difference

1972: Dissemination · Margins of Philosophy

1973-1980: The Archeology of the Frivolous: Reading Condillac (1973) · Glas (1974) · Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles · The Truth in Painting · The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond

1982-8: The Ear of the Other (1982) · Of an Apocalyptic Tone Recently Adopted in Philosophy (1983) · Ulysses Gramophone (1984) · Two Words for Joyce (1984) · Of Spirit (1987) · Psyche: Inventions of the Other (Vol. I, 1987) · Choral Work (1988) · Limited Inc. (1988)

1990s: Acts of Literature (1991) · The Gift of Death (1992) · Specters of Marx (1993) · Archive Fever (1995)
Concepts

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