Repetition, Difference, and Knowledge dialogues with novels, theatre, philosophy, and literary theory in order to explore how three thinkers Samuel Beckett, Jacques Derrida, and Gilles Deleuze employ repetition as a means with which to radically unsettle some of the most fundamental notions of the human experience (among them, time, presence, originality, and being). Due to its interdisciplinary scope and its focus on repetition as an epistemological concept, this book will attract a broad audience of academic specialists across the humanities from the fields of literary criticism,...
Repetition, Difference, and Knowledge dialogues with novels, theatre, philosophy, and literary theory in order to explore how three thinkers Sa...
American short-story writer Andre Dubus (1936-1999) was a "writer's writer." His acclaimed collections of short stories and essays involve one or all of three thematic discourses - that of the Catholic Church as center of meaning and value, the symbolic and healing power of rites and ritual on the human heart, and the ethical and spiritual dilemmas that drive human experience. "Like Chekhov's" reports the Village Voice, "Dubus's best stories contain the arc of a whole life in the language of specific moments." Tobias Wolff summarized, "Andre Dubus is a master." In 1986, however,...
American short-story writer Andre Dubus (1936-1999) was a "writer's writer." His acclaimed collections of short stories and essays involve one or a...