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Zusatztext ‘Pollard’s deft and lively handling of Mantel’s fiction in conversation with the thinking of Jacques Derrida and Jean Luc Nancy is a significant contribution to Mantel scholarship, one which offers the discerning reader a wealth of insights into one of our foremost novelists.’ -- Dr Lucy Arnold, University of Leeds Informationen zum Autor Eileen Pollard is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Chester, UK. Klappentext Origin and Ellipsis in the Writing of Hilary Mantel provokes a re-engagement with Derrida's thinking in contemporary literature, with particular emphasis on the philosopher's preoccupation with the process of writing. This is the first book-length study of Mantel's writing, not just in terms of Derrida's thought, but through any critical perspective or lens to date. Zusammenfassung This book provokes a re-engagement with Derrida’s thinking in contemporary literature, with emphasis on the philosopher’s preoccupation with the process of writing. This is the first book-length study of Mantel’s writing, not just in terms of Derrida’s thought, but through any critical lens. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. Understanding Ellipsis as a Burst Full Stop 1. ‘She is no writer of the Gothic’: Exploding the criticism as origin 2. Fludd : Exploding the gothic as origin 3. Beyond Black : Exploding the body as origin 4. Giving Up the Ghost : Exploding the autobiography as origin 5. Eight Months on Ghazzah Street and A Change of Climate : Tracing the silence in Mantel’s corpus 6. Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies : An Elliptical Reading 7. ‘There are no endings. They are all beginnings’: Giving up as gift Bibliography
