Reference:
Review Excerpts 'A comprehensive treatment of the question of writing is obviously beyond
the scope of the present essay. I will therefore concentrate on a particular recent
moment of reflection about writing -- the theoretical "revolution" in France in
1967-- which has had a decisive impact upon the shape of literary studies today'
(39).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | literary | scope |
writing |
'The rebus, the anagram, and the letter are clearly all manifestations of
writing. They are graphic, articulated, material instantiations of systems of marks
that simultaneously obscure and convey meaning' (42).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | meaning | writing |
'In his three volumes of 1967, Derrida gives rigorous attention to the paradox
that the Western tradition ... is filled with writings that privilege speech'
(43).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | paradox | western |
According to Johnson, 'Derrida sees signifying force in the gaps, margins,
figures, echoes, digressions, discontinuities, contradictions, and ambiguities of a
text' (46).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | text | 'The possibility of reading materiality, silence, space, and conflict within texts
has opened up extremely productive ways of studying the politics of language.
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | language | politics |
reading |
western |
'What enslaves is not writing per se but control of writing, and writing as
control. What is needed is not less writing but more consciousness of how it
works. If, as Derrida claims, the importance of writing has been "repressed" by
the dominant culture of the Western tradition, it is because writing can always
pass into the hands of the "other"... What is at stake in writing is the very structure
of authority itself' (48).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | culture | structure |
western |
writing |
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'The writings of Western male authorities have often encoded the silence,
denigration, or idealization not only of women but also of other "others"', thus,
excluding them (47).
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