Beckett, Derrida, and the event of literature

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Szafraniec Asja
Published: Stanford University Press,
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.