Crimes of Writing - Problems in the Containment of Representation

"In the essays collected in "Crimes of Writing," Stewart continues to build on her reputation as one of the most productive and challenging deconstructors of the disciplinary boundaries that supposedly separate literary history and critical theory from contemporary cultural analysis."-- Michael Moon, Duke University

List of contents

1. Crimes of Writing 3

2. Psalmanazar's Others 31

3. Notes on Distressed Genres 66

4. Scandals of the Ballad 102

5. The Birth of Authenticity in the Progress of Anxiety: Fragments of an Eighteenth-Century Daydream 132

6. Exogamous Relations: Travel Writing, the Incest Prohibition, and Hawthorne's Transformation 173

7. Ceci Tuera Cela: Graffiti as Crime and Art 206

8. The Marquis de Meese 235

9. Coda: Reverse Trompe l'Oeil\The Eruption of the Real 273

Works Cited 291

Index 311

About the author

Susan Stewart is Professor of English at Temple University. She is the author of On Longing, also published by Duke University Press.

Summary

Eight essays that examine particular issues in the relations between subjectivity, authenticity, writing, speech and the law.

Product details

• Authors: James Stewart, Susan Stewart, Susan Stewart
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.10.1994
• EAN: 9780822315452
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-1545-2
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 214 mm x 137 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 492 g
• Illustrations: 12 illustrations
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Englisch, Antiquitäten und Sammelobjekte: Bücher, Manuskripte, Ephemera und Drucksachen