Differance in Signifying Robinson Crusoe

Defoe, Tournier, Coetzee and Deconstructive Re-visions of a Myth

Omschrijving

Deconstructive rewritings are re-visions. This monograph engages Robinson Crusoe in tandem with two of its re-visions, Michel Tournier's Friday and J. M. Coetzee's Foe, from the perspective of the Enlightenment ideology. Basing the argument upon the assumption that Robinson Crusoe is a myth of the Enlightenment ideology representing the master narrative of the Enlightenment discourse, the book examines how the major ideological themes of the Enlightenment master narrative as manifested through the myth of Robinson Crusoe are rearticulated in Friday and Foe. It dismantles how these two re-visions, through deconstructive freeplay, question and more importantly deconstruct the basic premises and principles, or the concepts that enjoy the full presence of an absolute signified in the myth of Robinson Crusoe. Thus these re-visions not only transform the logocentric repressive structure in Defoe's text into open-ended and dialogic discourses, they also partly constitute a chain of différance in signifying the myth of Robinson Crusoe. The author desires to generate large-scale understandings from small-scale insights through this research. The book studies Friday and Foe in tandem with Robinson Crusoe to explore how these re-visions, through deconstructive freeplay, transform the logocentric repressive structure represented by Defoe’s text into open-ended dialogic discourses, thus partly constituting a chain of différance in signifying the myth of Robinson Crusoe.
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Schrijver
Ren, Haiyan
Titel
Differance in Signifying Robinson Crusoe
Uitgever
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Jaar
2014
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
194
Gewicht
263 gr
EAN
9783034313933
Afmetingen
203 x 146 x 13 mm
Bindwijze
Paperback

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