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Informationen zum Autor Dennis Schep is the author of Drugs; Rhetoric of Fantasy, Addiction to Truth (Atropos Press, 2011), and of many academic and journalistic articles. He received his PhD in literary studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin in 2017. His current focus is on the establishment of the Foundry, a residency for intellectuals and artists in rural Galicia. Klappentext Since the advent of post-structuralism, various authors have problematized the modern conception of autobiography by questioning the status of authorship and interrogating the relation between language and reality. Yet even after making autobiography into a theoretical problem, many of these authors ended up writing about themselves. This paradox stands at the center of this wide-ranging study of the form and function of autobiography in the work of authors who have distanced themselves from its modern instantiation. Discussing Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Hélène Cixous and others, this book grapples with the question of what it means to write the self when the self is understood as an effect of writing. Combining close reading, intellectual history and literary theory, The Autobiography Effect traces how precisely its theoretically problematic nature made autobiography into a central scene for the negotiation of philosophical positions and anxieties after structuralism. Zusammenfassung Combining close reading, intellectual history and literary theory, The Autobiography Effect traces how precisely its theoretically problematic nature made autobiography into a central scene for the negotiation of philosophical positions and anxieties after structuralism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Chapter One: The Subject of Autobiography Barthes’ anti-authorialism Copyright and authorship Barthesian autobiography Return of the referent The autobiography effect Notes Bibliography Chapter Two: Bodies in Crisis Pathography Metaphor (Nancy) Contingency (Nietzsche) Interruption (Ronell) Notes Bibliography Chapter Three: Eye Problems Anthropology (Nietzsche) Alterity (Derrida) I (Cixous) Notes Bibliography Chapter Four: Origin Algeria Silence Breaking the silence Discursive proliferation L’Allégorie française Notes Bibliography Chapter Five: How Not to Write about Oneself Lack of identity (Lévi-Strauss) Posthumous rereadings (de Man) The ecstasy of anonymity (Foucault) Conclusions Notes Bibliography ...
