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Signature Pieces: On the Institution of Authorship

By (author) Peggy Kamuf

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Some contemporary approaches to literature still accept the separation of historical, biographical, external concerns from formal, internal ones. On the borderline that lends this division between inside and outside its apparent coherence is signature. In Peggy Kamuf's view, studying signature will help us to rediscover some of the stakes of literary writing beyond the historicist/formalist opposition. Drawing on Derrida's extensive work on signatures and proper names, Kamuf investigates authorial signature in key writers from Rousseau to Woolf, as well as the implications of signature for the institutions of authorship and criticism.

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Publisher | Cornell University Press
Published date | 15 Aug 2018
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 252
Dimensions | 216 x 140 x 18mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 454g
ISBN | 978-1-5017-2636-1
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BISAC | literary criticism / semiotics & theory

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