The French Connections of Jacques Derrida

"This is a supple and thought-provoking book that caught my interest and kept it alive. It contributes a fresh understanding of Derrida's philosophy." Jean-Michel Rabat, University of Pennsylvania "What a great topic: just the sort of background book that courses in contemporary poetics, French and other, might use. No one but Jacques Derrida has done such a stunning job of changing the way we see, think, read, and (don't we wish) write." Mary Ann Caws, Graduate School, City University of New York

Julian Wolfreys is the author of Being English, published by SUNY Press, and editor of The Derrida Reader: Writing Performances. John Brannigan is Lecturer in English and Head of Irish Studies at the University of Luton; he is also the editor (with Ruth Robbins and Julian Wolfreys) of Applying: to Derrida. Ruth Robbins is Lecturer in English at the University of Luton and has edited (with Julian Wolfreys) Victorian Identities.

Abbreviations Preface Julian Wolfreys, John Brannigan, and Ruth Robbins Acknowledgments 1. "Mallarm, par Jacques Derrida" Michael Temple 2. In the Wake of ...: Baudelaire Valry Derrida Ruth Robbins and Julian Wolfreys 3. "We have nothing to do with literature": Derrida and Surrealist Writing John Brannigan 4. Musique-rythme: Derrida and Roger Laporte Ian Maclachlan 5. Domesticated Reading: Paulhan, Derrida, and the Logic of Ancestry Michael Syrotinski 6. I Remember ... (Points of Suspension) Jessica Maynard 7. Oulipian Grammatology: La rgle du jeu Burhan Tufail 8. Structuralism, Biology, and the Linguistic Model Christoher Johnson 9. French Kissing: Whose Tongue Is It Anyway? John P. Leavey Jr. 10. Translating Istrice: Derrida's Response from Poetry to the Poem Boris Belay 11. Between Barthes, Blanchot, and Mallarm: Skia(Photo)-Graphies of Derrida Laurent Milesi Notes of Contributors Works Cited Index