Acts of Literature (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Acts of Literature Thursday, August 20 2009.

• Acts of Literature, compiled in close association with Jacques Derrida, brings together for the first time a number of Derrida's writings on literary texts. The essays discuss literary figures such as Rousseau, Mallarm&#233, Joyce, Shakespeare, and Kafka, and comprise pieces spanning Derrida's career. The collection now includes a substantial interview with him on questions of literature, deconstruction, politics, feminism and history, and Derek Attridge provides an introductory essay on deconstruction and the question of literature, with suggestions for further reading. These essays examine the place and operation of literature in Western culture, and are highly original responses to individual literary texts. They highlight Derrida's interest in literature as a significant cultural institution and as a peculiarly challenging form of writing, with inescapable consequences for our thinking about philosophy, politics and ethics.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Acts of Literature Sunday, July 26 2009.

• Added a contributor: Jacques Derrida: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Acts of Literature Thursday, July 16 2009.

• The original interview, of which this is an edited transcript, took place in Laguna Beach over two days in April 1989.