Acts of Literature
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Acts of Literature is a 1991 philosophical and literary book based on essays by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida. The book is the first collection of Derrida's essays on Western-culture literary texts. Derek Attridge edited the book in close association with Derrida himself.
Summary
Derrida discusses authors such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Stéphane Mallarmé, James Joyce, William Shakespeare, and Franz Kafka.
Influence
A part highly cited by scholars is the chapter dedicated to James Joyce: ‘Ulysses’ Gramophone: Hear Say Yes In Joyce. (pp. 253–309).{{citation needed|date=January 2016}}
Editions
- 1st edition published by Routledge, November 20, 1991. {{ISBN|978-0-415-90057-7}}.
References
- [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3734331 Review] by Nick Groom (1995) The Modern Language Review, Vol. 90, No. 3 (Jul., 1995), pp. 726–728 {{doi|10.2307/3734331}}
- [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3296/is_199309/ai_n7998316 Review] by Wheeler, Kathleen M. Journal of European Studies, September, 1993
- Burns, Christy (1999) [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3643/is_199910/ai_n8858762 Joyce's significance for Derrida ] Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Fall 1999
- Roughley, ALAN (1999) Reading Derrida Reading Joyce (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999), p. 176
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