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    Signature Pieces: On the Institution of Authorship
    Signature Pieces: On the Institution of Authorship
    Signature Pieces: On the Institution of Authorship
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    Signature Pieces: On the Institution of Authorship

    By Peggy Kamuf

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    Some contemporary approaches to literature still accept the separation of historical, biographical, external concerns from formal, internal ones. On the borderline that lends this division between inside and outside its apparent coherence is signature. In Peggy Kamuf’s view, studying signature will help us to rediscover some of the stakes of literary writing beyond the historicist/formalist opposition. Drawing on Derrida’s extensive work on signatures and proper names, Kamuf investigates authorial signature in key writers from Rousseau to Woolf, as well as the implications of signature for the institutions of authorship and criticism.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCornell University Press
    Release dateMar 15, 2018
    ISBN9781501726378
    Signature Pieces: On the Institution of Authorship
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    Peggy Kamuf

    Peggy Kamuf is Professor Emerita of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. Her books include Book of Addresses, which won the René Wellek Prize, and, most recently, Literature and the Remains of the Death Penalty.

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