Literature and the Remains of the Death Penalty

Informationen zum Autor Peggy Kamuf is Professor Emerita of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. Her books include To Follow: The Wake of Jacques Derrida and Book of Addresses , which won the René Wellek Prize. She is co-editor of the seminars of Jacques Derrida and has translated several books by Derrida, including The Death Penalty I . Klappentext Peggy Kamuf is Professor Emerita of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. Her books include To Follow: The Wake of Jacques Derrida and Book of Addresses , which won the Ren¿ellek Prize. She is co-editor of the seminars of Jacques Derrida and has translated several books by Derrida, including The Death Penalty I . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1 1. Beginning with Literature 17 2. Orwell's Execution 41 3. Is Justice Burning? 61 4. The Sentence Is the Story 95 5. Playing the Law 123 Postmortem 145 Acknowledgments 149 Bibliography 151 Index 159

Product details

• Authors: Peggy Kamuf
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9780823282302
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-8230-2
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Idiom: Inventing Writing Theor; Idiom: Inventing Writing Theor
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies