Article: Joyce's significance for Derrida

Joyce's Significance for Derrida

ALAN ROUGHLEY, Reading Derrida Reading Joyce (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999), pp. 176, $49.95.

Over the past thirty-eight years, Jacques Derrida's writings have often alluded to, invoked, and at times directly addressed James Joyce's experimental treatment of the novel as literature (or "Literature," which for Derrida reflects back on literature in a philosophically evocative manner). Joyce's work was important to avant-garde thought in Europe from the 1920s through the 1970s, and its influence still lingers. A string of French theorists-Julia Kristeva, Helene Cixous, and Jacques Lacan-have explored the implications of language, ...

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