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The metaphysics of text

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Publication details: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2010Description: 225p xiiISBN:
  • 9780521197960
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808.000000 CHA
Contents:
Table of contents Preface; Introduction; Part I. General Metaphysics: 1. The heron in the water: textuality and the shapes of discourse; 2. The bounds of the text; 3. Adam's dream, Babel's curse; 4. The handkerchief and the cat; 5. The writer's hand, or the world, the text and the author; 6. The trajectories of texts; Part II. Special Territories: 7. Orality: yesterday, today and tomorrow; 8. Shakespeare and the book of the play; 9. Translation and displacement: the life and works of Pierre Menard; 10. Writing pictures, drawing words: the manuscript doodles of Rabindranath Tagore.
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Table of contents
Preface;
Introduction;
Part I. General Metaphysics:
1. The heron in the water: textuality and the shapes of discourse;
2. The bounds of the text;
3. Adam's dream, Babel's curse;
4. The handkerchief and the cat;
5. The writer's hand, or the world, the text and the author;
6. The trajectories of texts;
Part II. Special Territories:
7. Orality: yesterday, today and tomorrow;
8. Shakespeare and the book of the play;
9. Translation and displacement: the life and works of Pierre Menard;
10. Writing pictures, drawing words: the manuscript doodles of Rabindranath Tagore.