Regard for the Other
Subtitle: Autothanatography in Rousseau, De Quincey, Baudelaire, and Wilde
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Bronx
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 449
ISBN-13: 9780823230921
Subjects: Literature
Description: Although much has been written on autobiography, the same cannot be said of autothanatography, the writing of one's death. This study starts from the deconstructive premise that autobiography is aporetic, not or not only a matter of a subject strategizing with language to produce an exemplary identity but a matter also of its responding to an exorbitant call to write its death. The I-dominated representations of particular others and of the privileged other to whom a work is addressed, must therefore be set against an alterity plaguing the I from within or shadowing it from without. This alter.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction. A Clutch of Brothers: Alterity and Autothanatography; I. Autobiography Interrupted; II. Writing Death, with Regard to the Other; Notes; Works Cited; Index.