Acts of Literature

Cover of the first edition

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

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

## Influence

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

## Editions

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* 1st edition published by Routledge, November 20, 1991. ISBN 978-0-415-90057-7.

## References

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* Review by Nick Groom (1995) The Modern Language Review, Vol. 90, No. 3 (Jul., 1995), pp. 726–728 doi:10.2307/3734331
* 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

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Jacques Derrida

Interview collections|

* Positions (1972)
* "The Rhetoric of Drugs" (1989)
* Points...: Interviews, 1974–1994 (1995)

Essays|

* "Cogito and the History of Madness" (1963)
* "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences" (1966)
* Of Grammatology (1967)
* Speech and Phenomena (1967)
* Writing and Difference (1967)
* Margins of Philosophy (1972)
* Glas (1974)
* The Post Card (1980)
* Limited Inc. (1988)
* Right to Philosophy (1990)
* Acts of Literature (1991)
* Specters of Marx (1993)
* Archive Fever (1995)
* Ethics, Institutions, and the Right to Philosophy (2002)
* The Animal That Therefore I Am (2008)

Concepts|

* Deconstruction
* Différance
* Hauntology
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* Kettle logic
* Phallogocentrism
* Phonocentrism
* Logocentrism
* Metaphysics of presence
* Free play
* Citationality
* Sous rature

Related articles|

* Marguerite Aucouturier
* Bibliography
* Derrida
* Gadamer–Derrida debate
* Ghost Dance
* The Reception of Derrida
* Searle–Derrida debate
* Sokal affair

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