Imagining Joyce and Derrida
Subtitle: Between Finnegans Wake and Glas
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: July 7, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 405
ISBN-13: 9780802092496
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Europe; European - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / European
Description: How is meaning in one text shaped by another? Does intertextuality consist of more than simple references by one text to another? In Imagining Joyce and Derrida, Peter Mahon explores these questions through a comparative study of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake and the deconstructive texts of Jacques Derrida, with a particular emphasis on Glas. Mahon's reading of these works insists on thinking through Derrida's "Hegelian" manner of understanding Joyce. Using key texts of Vico, Kant, and Heidegger, Mahon develops a theoretical framework that allows him to theorize and re-conceptualize the intertextuality between Joyce and Derrida in terms of the imagination.