The Emergence of Literature: An Archaeology of Modern Literary Theory (Paperback)

Acknowledgments Note on Text List of Abbreviations Introduction: Writerly Necessity Part 1 The Emergence of Literature as Absolute 1. Literature as Pure Writing 2. The Literary Absolute 3. The Born Poet Threshold Part 2 The Paradigm of Writerly Necessity 4. Between the Subject and Language 5. The Paradigm of Writerly Necessity 6. The Writer Who Cannot Not-Desire to Write Threshold Part 3 Literary Criticism 7. The Author (Sincerity) 8. The Death of the Author (Intransitivity) 9. The Politics of a priori Poetry Threshold Part 4 Aesthetics 10. Literature in the Age of Criticism 11. The Critic 12. To Write as an Intransitive Verb Threshold Afterthought on Literary Inoperativity Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index