Signature Pieces : : On the Institution of Authorship / / Peggy Kamuf.

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...

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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press,, [2018]
©1988
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (237 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • INTRODUCTION. A Single Line Divided
  • PART I. ROUSSEAU AND THE MODERN SIGNATURE
  • CHAPTER ONE. The Name of a Problem
  • CHAPTER TWO. Contracting the Signature
  • CHAPTER THREE. Author of a Crime
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Seeing through Rousseau
  • CONCLUSION. End piece
  • PART II. NO ONE SIGNS FOR THE OTHER
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Baudelaire au feminin
  • CHAPTER SIX. Penelope at Work
  • PART III. RESISTANCE THEORIES
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Floating Authorship
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. Pieces of Resistance
  • Works Cited
  • Index