The Autobiography Effect: Writing the Self in Post-Structuralist Theory

ISBN-13: 9781032090900 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 268 str.

Dennis Schep

Opis

Combining close reading, intellectual history and literary theory, The Autobiography Effect traces how precisely its theoretically problematic nature made autobiography into a central scene for the negotiation of philosophical positions and anxieties after structuralism.

Spis treści

Preface

　

Chapter One: The Subject of Autobiography

Barthes’ anti-authorialism

Copyright and authorship

Barthesian autobiography

Return of the referent

The autobiography effect

Notes

Bibliography

　

Chapter Two: Bodies in Crisis

Pathography

Metaphor (Nancy)

Contingency (Nietzsche)

Interruption (Ronell)

Notes

Bibliography

　

Chapter Three: Eye Problems

Anthropology (Nietzsche)

Alterity (Derrida)

I (Cixous)

Notes

Bibliography

　

Chapter Four: Origin Algeria

Silence

Breaking the silence

Discursive proliferation

L’Allégorie française

Notes

Bibliography

　

Chapter Five: How Not to Write about Oneself

Lack of identity (Lévi-Strauss)

Posthumous rereadings (de Man)

The ecstasy of anonymity (Foucault)

Conclusions

Notes

Bibliography

O autorze

Dennis Schep is the author of Drugs; Rhetoric of Fantasy, Addiction to Truth (Atropos Press, 2011), and of many academic and journalistic articles. He received his PhD in literary studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin in 2017. His current focus is on the establishment of the Foundry, a residency for intellectuals and artists in rural Galicia.