Citation and Modernity: Derrida, Joyce and Brecht (Oklahoma Project for Discourse & Theory)

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pp.173.”This is the first modern study of the phenomenon of quotation, about which very little has been written in English. Until the end of the nineteenth century, or at least until Flaubert, most writers relied on the traditional definition of quotation derived from classical rhetoric, employing citations as ornaments or illustrations.
Claudette Sartiliot argues that for modernist and postmodernist writers quotation represents a definite break with the tradition as well as a means of questioning the nature of the literary text. Using many specific examples from Jacques Derrida’s Glas, Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, and several works by Bertolt Brecht, Sartiliot demonstrates different aspects of quotation in modernist and postmodernist literature. In essence, citation in these texts acts as a kind of indeterminate point of contact between the author’s discourse and traditional discourses.
Sartiliot’s approach allows her to discuss a wide range of interrelated issues surrounding modernist or postmodernist texts, as well as to explore the consequences of the break with classical quotation in three different genres: philosophy, fiction, and the theater.”

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ISBN 0806125063
ISBN13 9780806125060
Number of pages 173
Original Title Citation and Modernity: Derrida, Joyce and Brecht (Oklahoma Project for Discourse & Theory)
Published Date 1993
Book Condition Very good
Jacket Condition Very good
Binding Hardcover
Size 8vo
Place of Publication Norman
Edition First edition
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pp.173.”This is the first modern study of the phenomenon of quotation, about which very little has been written in English. Until the end of the nineteenth century, or at least until Flaubert, most writers relied on the traditional definition of quotation derived from classical rhetoric, employing citations as ornaments or illustrations.
Claudette Sartiliot argues that for modernist and postmodernist writers quotation represents a definite break with the tradition as well as a means of questioning the nature of the literary text. Using many specific examples from Jacques Derrida’s Glas, Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, and several works by Bertolt Brecht, Sartiliot demonstrates different aspects of quotation in modernist and postmodernist literature. In essence, citation in these texts acts as a kind of indeterminate point of contact between the author’s discourse and traditional discourses.
Sartiliot’s approach allows her to discuss a wide range of interrelated issues surrounding modernist or postmodernist texts, as well as to explore the consequences of the break with classical quotation in three different genres: philosophy, fiction, and the theater.”

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