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Cryptomimesis

The Gothic and Jacques Derrida's Ghost Writing

By: Carla Jodey Castricano

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Cryptomimesis

The Gothic and Jacques Derrida's Ghost Writing

By: Carla Jodey Castricano

In the last thirty years the living-dead, the revenant, the phantom, and the crypt have appeared with increasing frequency in Jacques Derrida's writings and, for the most part, have gone unaddressed. In Cryptomimesis Jodey Castricano examines the intersection between Derrida's writing and the Gothic to theorize what she calls Derrida's "poetics of the crypt." She develops the theory of cryptomimesis, a term devised to accommodate the convergence of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and certain "Gothic" stylistic, formal, and thematic patterns and motifs in Derrida's work that give rise to questions regarding writing, reading, and interpretation. Using Edgar Allan Poe's Madeline and Roderick Usher, Bram Stoker's Dracula, and Stephen King's Louis Creed, she illuminates Derrida's concerns with inheritance, revenance, and haunting and reflects on deconstruction as ghost writing. Castricano demonstrates that Derrida's Specters of Marx owes much to the Gothic insistence on the power of haunting and explores how deconstruction can be thought of as the ghost or deferred promise of Marxism. She traces the movement of the "phantom" throughout Derrida's other texts, arguing that such writing provides us with an uneasy model of subjectivity because it suggests that "to be" is to be haunted. Castricano claims that cryptomimesis is the model, method, and theory behind Derrida's insistence that to learn to live we must learn how to talk "with" ghosts.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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Animal Subjects 2.0

By: Carla Jodey Castricano,Lauren Corman

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Animal Subjects 2.0

By: Carla Jodey Castricano,Lauren Corman

It's a book of critical animal studies that centre on humankind's relationships with nonhuman animals. The subject is viewed through various lenses: gender, disability, culture, race."--

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Environmental Humanities

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1771122102

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9781771122108

Cryptomimesis

The Gothic and Jacques Derrida's Ghost Writing

By: Carla Jodey Castricano

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The Gothic and Jacques Derrida's Ghost Writing

By: Carla Jodey Castricano

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773522794

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9780773522794

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