Beckett, Derrida, and the event of literature
By: Asja Szfraniec.
Series: Cultural memory in the present
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780804754569; 9780804754576
Subjects: Beckett, Samuel, -- 1906-1989 -- Criticism and interpretation; Derrida, Jacques; Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Authorship -- Psychological aspects; Literature -- Philosophy; Deconstruction
Table of contents: title: The question of literature; title: A singular odyssey; title: Beckett, Derrida and the ordinary; title: Beckett's "exhausted" archives; title: Singular points of transaction (I): the subject; title: Singular points of transaction (II): "what are poets for?" the authority of literature; title: Singular points of transaction (III): "wanting in inanity"; title: Negativity, language and "God" in Beckett.