Beckett, Derrida, and the event of literature
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Stanford University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Stanford, Calif. |
Publication Dates: | 2007. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
Cultural memory in the present |
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Carrier Form: | 246 p.: ; 23 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780804754569 (cloth : alk. paper) 080475456X (cloth : alk. paper) 9780804754576 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0804754578 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Index Number: | I0 |
CLC: |
I0-02 I562.065 B565.59 |
Call Number: | I562.065/S996 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-239) and index. The question of literature -- A singular odyssey -- Beckett, Derrida, and the ordinary -- Beckett's "exhausted" archives -- Singular points of transaction (I): the subject -- Singular points of transaction (II): "what are poets for?" the authority of literature -- Singular points of transaction (III): "wanting in inanity." Negativity, language and "God" in Beckett. |