Literature and the Touch of the Real

by David Schalkwyk

Literature and the Touch of the Real offers a critique of neo-Saussurean theories of the constitution of the world through language or the essential divorce of language from the real. It does this by, first, offering a critical account of the contradictions and omissions of Saussure's Course in General Linguistics. Secondly, in a revisionist reading of Jacques Derrida, it argues that far from reducing reality to language, Derrida's concept...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611492157
• ISBN13: 9781611492156
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"