I AM A PROCESS WITH NO SUBJECT: AUTHOR, AUDIENCE AND WORK IN THE LITERATURE OF DECONSTRUCTION. EXPLORATORY READINGS IN SOME MODERN TEXTS.
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Title
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I AM A PROCESS WITH NO SUBJECT: AUTHOR, AUDIENCE AND WORK IN THE LITERATURE OF DECONSTRUCTION. EXPLORATORY READINGS IN SOME MODERN TEXTS.
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Identifier
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AAI8629670
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identifier
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8629670
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Creator
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BEITCHMAN, PHILIP.
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Contributor
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Hannah K. Charney
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Date
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1986
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Literature, Comparative | Literature, Romance | Literature, English
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Abstract
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This dissertation explores the texts of seven 20th century writers that represent a radical, iconoclastic and highly innovative current in the theory and practice of modern literature. In an introductory chapter the texts of these writers are related to a "literature of deconstruction", that is to a library of self-questioning, effacing and tormenting works that Derrida's (and the Yale Critics') Deconstruction extends, responds to, and where it finds both inspiration and challenge.;The seven writers, engaged in successive essays, are: Tristan Tzara (Le Mouchoir des Nuages, L'Homme Approxamatif, Grains et Issues); Samuel Beckett (The Trilogy); Michel Leiris (La Regle du Jeu); Maurice Blanchot (criticism and fiction); James Joyce (Finnegans Wake); Philippe Sollers (Drame); Louis-Rene Des Forets (Le Bavard).;A concluding essay takes up the question of the prevalence and presence of themes of madness and theatre in modern literature, as well as the pertinence of these derealizing, "threatening" motifs for the deconstructive text.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Comparative Literature
