Piskorski Derrida and Textual Animality

For a Zoogrammatology of Literature
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-51732-8
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

Derrida and Textual Animality: For a Zoogrammatology of Literature  analyses what has come to be known, in the Humanities, as ‘the question of the animal’, in relation to literary texts. Rodolfo Piskorski intervenes in the current debate regarding the non-human and its representation in literature, resisting popular materialist methodological approaches in the field by revisiting and revitalising the post-structuralist thought of Derrida and the ‘linguistic turn’. The book focuses on Derrida’s early work in order to frame deconstructive approaches to literature as necessary for a theory and practice of literary criticism that addresses the question of the animal, arguing that texts are like animals, and animals are like texts. While Derrida’s late writings have been embraced by animal studies scholars due to its overt focus on animality, ethics, and the non-human, Piskorski demonstrates the additional value of these early Derridean texts for the field of literary animal studies by proposing detailed zoogrammatological readings of texts by Freud, Clarice Lispector, Ted Hughes, and Darren Aronofsky, while in dialogue with thinkers such as Butler, Kristeva, Genette, Deleuze and Guattari, and Attridge.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Piskorski, Rodolfo

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Animal as Text, Text as Animal: On the Matter of Textuality.- 3. The Arche-Animal: Totemic Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis.- 4. The Thought-Fox: The Poetics of Animal Form.- 5. Transcending Signs: Becoming-Animal in Black Swan .- 6. Animal Supplementarity in Lispector’s The Apple in the Dark .

Über Autor(innen)

Rodolfo Piskorski is University Teacher in English Literature and Portuguese Tutor at Cardiff University, UK, from which he has a PhD in Critical and Cultural Theory.