The French Connections of Jacques Derrida

by Wolfreys, Julian; Brannigan, John; Robbins, Ruth

• ISBN13: 9780791441329
• ISBN10: 0791441326
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

The French Connections of Jacques Derrida offers stimulating and accessible essays that address, for the first time, the issue of Derrida's relation to French poetics, writing, thought, and culture. In addition to offering considerations of Derrida through studies of such significant French authors as Mallarme, Baudelaire, Valery, Laporte, Ponge, Perec, Blanchot, and Barthes, the book also reassesses the development of Derrida's work in the context of structuralism, biology, and linguistics in the 1960s, and looks at the possible relationships between Derrida's writing and that of the Surrealist and Oulipa groups. Derrida is introduced as one whose work is as much poetic as it is philosophical, and who is strikingly French and yet not unproblematically so.

Author Biography

Boris Belay is a doctoral student at the State University of New York at Stonybrook John Brannigan is Head of Irish Studies at the University of Luton, where he also lectures in the English Department Christopher Johnson is lecturer in French at Keele University John P. Leavey Jr. teaches at the University of Florida Ian Maclachlan is a Lecturer in French at the University of Aberdeen Jessica Maynard teaches in the Department of English at King's College, London Laurent Milesi teaches English and American Literature and Critical Theory at Cardiff University of Wales Ruth Robbins is a lecturer in literary studies at the University of Luton Michael Syrotinski teaches Contemporary French and Francophone Literature and Culture at the University of Aberdeen Michael Temple is a lecturer in French at Queen Mary and Westfield College, London Burhan Tufail has taught at the University of North London and at Queen Mary and Westfield College Julian Wolfreys has taught at the universities of Luton and Dundee

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	vii
Preface	ix
Julian Wolfreys
John Brannigan
Ruth Robbins
Acknowledgments	xvii
``Mallarme, par Jacques Derrida''	1	(22)
Michael Temple
In the Wake of .... Baudelaire Valery Derrida	23	(30)
Ruth Robbins
Julian Wolfreys
``We have nothing to do with literature'': Derrida and Surrealist Writing	53	(18)
John Brannigan
Musique-rythme: Derrida and Roger Laporte	71	(14)
Ian Maclachlan
Domesticated Reading: Paulhan, Derrida, and the Logic of Ancestry	85	(16)
Michael Syrotinski
I Remember ... (Points of Suspension)	101	(18)
Jessica Maynard
Oulipian Grammatology: La regle du jeu	119	(16)
Burhan Tufail
Structuralism, Biology, and the Linguistic Model	135	(14)
Christopher Johnson
French Kissing: Whose Tongue Is It Anyway?	149	(16)
John P. Leavey Jr.
Translating Istrice: Derrida's Response from Poetry to the Poem	165	(10)
Boris Belay
Between Barthes, Blanchot, and Mallarme: Skia (Photo)-Graphies of Derrida	175	(36)
Laurent Milesi
Notes on Contributors	211	(2)
Works Cited	213	(18)
Index	231