I am a process with no subject

651 Pages·1988·1.46 MB·English

by  Philip Beitchman

I Am a Process With No Subject University
title: of Florida Monographs. Humanities ; No.
61
author: Beitchman, Philip.
publisher: University Press of Florida
isbn10 | asin: 0813008883
print isbn13: 9780813008882
ebook isbn13: 9780813019048
language: English
French literature--20th century--History and
criticism, Joyce, James,--1882-1941.--
subject
Finnegans wake, Literature, Experimental--
History and criticism, Deconstruction.
publication date: 1988
lcc: PQ306.B36 1988eb
ddc: 809/.91
French literature--20th century--History and
criticism, Joyce, James,--1882-1941.--
subject:
Finnegans wake, Literature, Experimental--
History and criticism, Deconstruction.
Page i
I Am a Process with No Subject
University of Florida Monographs
Humanities Number 61
Page iii
I Am a Process with No Subject
Philip Beitchman
University of Florida Press
Gainesville
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EDITORIAL BOARD
University of Florida Humanities Monographs
Raymond Gay-Crosier, Chairman
Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
Alistair Duckworth
Professor of English
Alexander Stephan
Professor of German
Gareth Schmeling
Professor of Classics
Robert Westin
Professor of Art
Edouard Morot-Sir
Kenan Professor of French, Emeritus
UNC, Chapel Hill
Copyright © 1988 by Philip Beitchman
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Beitchman, Philip, 1939
I am a process with no subject.
(University of Florida monographs. Humanities; no. 61)
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
1. French literature20th centuryHistory and criticism. 2.
Joyce, James, 18821941. Finnegans wake. 3. Literature,
ExperimentalHistory and criticism. 4. Deconstruction. I. Title.
II. Series.
PQ306.B36 1988 809´.91 88-1344
ISBN 0-8130-0888-3 (alk. paper)
Page v
I dedicate this book to the
homeless
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
1. IntroductionAuthor, Audience, and Work in the 1
Literature of Deconstruction
2. Symbolism in the Streets: Tristan Tzara 27
3. A Question of Culture/Culture in Question: Samuel 53
Beckett
4. The Rules of Leiris' Game: La Règle de jeu, IIV 70
5. The Fragmentary Word of Maurice Blanchot 94
6. The Endless Question: Finnegans Wake, 1, 6 123
7. The Strategy of Interruption: Philippe Sollers' Drame 151
8. A Deconstructed Epiphany: Des Forêts' Le Bavard 182
9. Madness, Theater, Text 216
Renvoi 232
Notes 233
Bibliography 286
Index 300
Page ix
Acknowledgments
The author acknowledges with thanks the permission granted by the
publishers and translators of the following editions to quote
copyrighted material from their listed publications.
Samuel Beckett. Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, and the
Unnamable. New York: Grove Press, 1955.
Maurice Blanchot. Madness of the Day. Translated by Lydia Davis.
Barrytown, New York: Station Hill Press, 1981.
Gilles Deleuze. Logique du sens. Paris: Éditions de Minuit, 1969.
Jacques Derrida. Positions. Translated by Alan Bass. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1981.
Louis-René Des Forêts. Le Bavard. Paris: Gallimard, 1946. English
translation of Le Bavard in The Children's Room, translated by Jean
Stewart. London: John Calder Ltd., 1963. (John Calder Ltd. has given
me permission to quote Des Forêts in French and translate his prose
into English, but readers are respectfully reminded that the Stewart
translation is the only authorized one.)
James Joyce. Finnegans Wake. New York: Viking-Penguin, 1939,
1958.
James Joyce. A First Draft Version of Finnegans Wake. Edited and
annotated with draft catalogue by David Hayman. Austin: University
of Texas Press, 1963.
Michel Leiris. La Règle du jeu, II, III, IV. Paris: Gallimard, 1955,
1966, 1976.
Emmanuel Lévinas. Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence.
Translated by Alphonso Lingis. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1981.