Dennis Schep

The Autobiography Effect

Writing the Self in Post-Structuralist Theory

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Combining close reading, intellectual history and literary theory, The Autobiography Effect traces how precisely its theoretically problematic nature made autobiography into a central scene for the negotiation of philosophical positions and anxieties after structuralism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 135mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780367330538
• ISBN-10: 0367330539
• Artikelnr.: 57458044

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Chapter One: The Subject of Autobiography
Barthes' anti-authorialism
Copyright and authorship
Barthesian autobiography
Return of the referent
The autobiography effect
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter Two: Bodies in Crisis
Pathography
Metaphor (Nancy)
Contingency (Nietzsche)
Interruption (Ronell)
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter Three: Eye Problems
Anthropology (Nietzsche)
Alterity (Derrida)
I (Cixous)
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter Four: Origin Algeria
Silence
Breaking the silence
Discursive proliferation
L'Allégorie française
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter Five: How Not to Write about Oneself
Lack of identity (Lévi-Strauss)
Posthumous rereadings (de Man)
The ecstasy of anonymity (Foucault)
Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography