| Beckett, Derrida, and the Event of Literature Contributor(s): Szafraniec, Asja (Author) |
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ISBN: 080475456X ISBN-13: 9780804754569 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2007 Annotation: " Those who live by the word have unfinished business with the achievement of Samuel Beckett. Asja Szafraniec' s ambitious study, taking Derrida' s elaborations as measures in turn measured by Beckett' s corpus, is as clear and comprehensive and illuminating a progress with the complex of these performers as one might ask for. Near initiates of this region of crisscross between what is called philosophy and what literature, as well as experienced warriors within it, should find cause to be grateful for Asja Szafraniec' s sure hand and expansive connections." -- Stanley Cavell, Harvard University "This is a remarkable and valuable work in many respects, in particular because it is not only the first, to my knowledge, to systematically explore the relation between Derrida and Beckett, but also because it puts Derrida's vision of literature to the test in the context of a corpus of writings that does not belong to the canon of literature with which he has been involved." -- Rodolphe Gasche, SUNY Buffalo |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Business & Economics | Development - Economic Development - Literary Criticism | European - French |
| Dewey: 848.914 |
| LCCN: 2007004809 |
| Series: Cultural Memory in the Present |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.2" W x 9" (1.00 lbs) 264 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Jacques Derrida's repeatedly stated admiration and professed inability to comment on the work of Samuel Beckett are the point of departure for this book's exploration of the relation between philosophy and literature. |