Dennis Schep

The Autobiography Effect (eBook, PDF)

Writing the Self in Post-Structuralist Theory

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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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000487589
• Artikelnr.: 57197593

Autorenporträt

Dennis Schep is the author of Drugs; Rhetoric of Fantasy, Addiction to Truth (Atropos Press, 2011), and of many academic and journalistic articles. He received his PhD in literary studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin in 2017. His current focus is on the establishment of the Foundry, a residency for intellectuals and artists in rural Galicia.

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