Signature Pieces: Social Conflict and Political Protest in Early Modern Japan

by Peggy Kamuf

Book Overview

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 literary writing beyond the historicist/formalist opposition. Drawing on Derrida's extensive work on signatures...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801422094
• ISBN13: 9780801422096
• Release Date: October 1988
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher