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001 2014033583
003 DLC
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008 140925s2015 nyu b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9780823265794 (hardback)
020 $a9780823265800 (paper)
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050 00 $aB809.6$b.B4613 2015
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100 1 $aBen-Naftali, Michal.
240 10 $aKroniḳah shel peredah.$lEnglish
245 10 $aChronicle of separation :$bon deconstruction's disillusioned love /$cMichal Ben-Naftali ; translated by Mirjam Hadar.
264 1 $aNew York :$bFordham University Press,$c2015.
300 $axxvii, 199 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aIdiom: inventing writing theory
520 $a"The book Chronicle of Separation is an attempt to write on Derrida, to Derrida and from Derrida on the basis of a pathetic experience, which, in various ways, describes and enacts the pathetic experience of deconstruction itself. The book tackles the weight of emotions that is at the heart of deconstructive reading, treating deconstruction's weak, fragile and parasitic mode of thinking as a deconstruction of emotion, on emotion and as emotion. Chronicle of Separation examines these themes beginning with a descriptive and an analytic reading of Derrida's Memoirs: For Paul de Man and The Post Card, as embodiments of deconstruction's melancholic friendship which inscribes its disillusioned love in what it calls the 'postal condition'. The book then moves on to a feminization of Derrida, experimenting in different modes of writing. It firstly discusses Fred Zinneman's film Julia about a mournful friendship between women. Then it performs a deconstructive meditation on the anorexic person suggesting that anorexia constitutes a paradoxical embodiment of deconstruction. The concluding chapter presents a complete incorporation of Derrida into a fictional text that re-writes the biblical Book of Ruth"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"The book Chronicle of Separation is an attempt to write on Derrida, to Derrida and from Derrida on the basis of a pathetic experience, which, in various ways, describes and enacts the pathetic experience of deconstruction itself. The book tackles the weight of emotions that is at the heart of deconstructive reading"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 189-193) and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: -- Contents -- Foreword by Avital Ronell -- Preface -- 1. From Absolute Love to the Politics of Friendship -- 2. Let's Show Our (Post) Cards -- 3. Julia -- 4. And You Shall Eat and You Shall Be Satisfied and You Shall Be Released: Deconstruction as an Anorexic Perspective -- 5. The Book of Ruth -- Epilogue -- Appendix: The Biblical Book of Ruth -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
650 0 $aDeconstruction.
650 0 $aInterpersonal relations.
650 0 $aGender identity.
650 0 $aAnorexia nervosa.
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction.$2bisacsh