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CRYPTOMIMESIS: THE GOTHIC AND JACQUES DERRIDA'S GHOST By Jodey Castricano
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- Book Title
- Cryptomimesis: The Gothic and Jacques Derrida's Ghost Writing
- Item Height
- 9 inches
- ISBN-10
- 0773522646
- Genre
- PHILOSOPHY
- ISBN
- 9780773522640
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
ISBN-10
0773522646
ISBN-13
9780773522640
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2455596
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
176 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Cryptomimesis : the Gothic and Jacques Derrida's Ghost Writing
Subject
Movements / Deconstruction, Gothic & Romance, History & Surveys / Modern
Publication Year
2001
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Philosophy
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight
14.4 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
Reviews
"An extremely intelligent and well-written analysis of Jacques Derrida's theories of writing. Castricano shows how Derrida's investigation of writing and the self that is created in and through language is a fundamentally "Gothic" story. She is obviously an expert in both Derrida and the Gothic, and is conversant with the critical traditions relevant to each. This book, with its insightful reading of Derrida, offers a valuable contribution to the development of Gothic studies." Anne Williams, Department of English, University of Georgia "A strong, lucid, and engaging book on a complex and highly abstract subject. Castricano demostrates a real grasp of Derrida and the major texts in the Freudian tradion and its revision, and she continually explains or inflects one point through another in a deft synthesis of theoretical points of view." Eric Savoy, Department of English, University of Calgary
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
194
Synopsis
In the last thirty years the living-dead, the revenant, the phantom, and the crypt have appeared with increasing frequency in Jacques Derrida's writings and, for the most part, have gone unaddressed. In Cryptomimesis Jodey Castricano examines the intersection between Derrida's writing and the Gothic to theorize what she calls Derrida's "poetics of the crypt.", She develops the theory of cryptomimesis, a term devised to accommodate the convergence of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and certain "Gothic" stylistic, formal, and thematic patterns and motifs in Derrida's work that give rise to questions regarding writing, reading, and interpretation. Using Edgar Allan Poe's Madeline and Roderick Usher, Bram Stoker's Dracula, and Stephen King's Louis Creed, she illuminates Derrida's concerns with inheritance, revenance, and haunting and reflects on deconstruction as ghost writing. Castricano demonstrates that Derrida's Specters of Marx owes much to the Gothic insistence on the power of haunting and explores how deconstruction can be thought of as the ghost or deferred promise of Marxism. She traces the movement of the "phantom" throughout Derrida's other texts, arguing that such writing provides us with an uneasy model of subjectivity because it suggests that "to be" is to be haunted. Castricano claims that cryptomimesis is the model, method, and theory behind Derrida's insistence that to learn to live we must learn how to talk Awith" ghosts.
LC Classification Number
PN75
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