Singularities by Thomas Adam Pepper
The possibility of literary theory has been repeatedly put at risk by the apparently simple question 'What is a literary text?' Throughout the twentieth century the epistemological status of literature, the problem of language's claim to true representation, has challenged our received notions of ontology and being. Thus the question 'What is literature?' has frequently sponsored highly philosophical interrogations of our inherited ways of comprehending the external world. In Singularities, Thomas Pepper addresses the relationship between textuality, value, and critical difficulty. In a rich sequence of nuanced close readings of especially demanding philosophical and literary texts, Singularities addresses key moments in Adorno, Blanchot, de Man, Derrida, Foucault, Althusser, Levinas and Celan. By offering a critique of the very process of thematic reading, this book addresses the whole question of truth and being, language and value, in a series of readings of sustained critical power.-
Paratexts
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Derrida and Autobiography
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Theories of Mimesis
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Chronoschisms
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Possible Worlds in Literary Theory
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Mikhail Bakhtin
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The Subject of Modernity
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Parody
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Ideology and Inscription
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Rhetoric and Culture in Lacan
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Theory and the Novel
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The Practice of Theory
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The Poetics of Personification
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The Subject and the Text
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Kenneth Burke
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Onomatopoetics
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Critical Conditions
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Consequences of Enlightenment
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Renegotiating Ethics in Literature, Philosophy, and Theory
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Anti-Mimesis from Plato to Hitchcock
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The Object of Literature
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Theorising Textual Subjects
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Wordsworth, Dialogics and the Practice of Criticism
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Rhetoric, Sophistry, Pragmatism
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Cinema, Theory, and Political Responsibility in Contemporary Culture
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Theorizing the Avant-Garde
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Novels behind Glass
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Introduction to Literary Hermeneutics
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521574785 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521574781 |
| Title | Singularities |
| Author | Thomas Adam Pepper |
| Series | Literature Culture Theory |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 1997-06-28 |
| Number of pages | 267 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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