The metaphysics of text
By: Sukanta Chaudhuri
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780521197960
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: General metaphysics. The heron in the water : textuality and the shapes of discourse ; The bounds of the text ; Adam's dream, Babel's curse ; The handkerchief and the cat ; The writer's hand : or the world, the text and the author ; The trajectories of texts; title: Special territories. Orality : yesterday, today and tomorrow ; Shakespeare : the book of the play ; Translation and displacement : the life and works of Pierre Menard ; Writing pictures, drawing words : the manuscript doodles of Rabindranath Tagore.