Description: 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...
Brief description: Peggy Kamuf is Marion Frances Chevalier Professor of French and Professor of French and Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. She is the author of The Division of Literature, or the University in Deconstruction and To Follow: The Wake of Jacques Derrida.
Review Quotes:
The strange embrace of dominance and opposition, of denial and return is what we witness in contemporary criticism; but Kamuf's demanding and rewarding book teaches that that 'scene' is part of what has been a longer playing drama.
--Ross Chambers "French Forum"