Acts of Literature explained

Acts of Literature
Author:	Jacques Derrida
Subject:	Literature
Published:	1991
Media Type:	Print
Pages:	472

Acts of Literature is a 1991 philosophical and literary book based on essays by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida. The book is the first collection of Derrida's essays on Western-culture literary texts. Derek Attridge edited the book in close association with Derrida himself.

Summary

Derrida discusses authors such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Stéphane Mallarmé, James Joyce, William Shakespeare, and Franz Kafka.

Influence

A part highly cited by scholars is the chapter dedicated to James Joyce: ‘Ulysses’ Gramophone: Hear Say Yes In Joyce. (pp. 253–309).

Editions

• 1st edition published by Routledge, November 20, 1991. .

References

• Review by Nick Groom (1995) The Modern Language Review, Vol. 90, No. 3 (Jul., 1995), pp. 726–728
• Review by Wheeler, Kathleen M. Journal of European Studies, September, 1993
• Burns, Christy (1999) Joyce's significance for Derrida Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Fall 1999
• Roughley, ALAN (1999) Reading Derrida Reading Joyce (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999), p. 176