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In the last thirty years the living-dead, the revenant, the phantom, and the crypt have appeared with increasing frequency in Jacques Derrida's writings and, for the most part, have gone unaddressed. In "Cryptomimesis" Jodey Castricano examines the intersection between Derrida's writing and the Gothic to theorise what she calls Derrida's 'poetics of the crypt'. She develops the theory of cryptomimesis, a term devised to accommodate the convergence of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and certain 'Gothic' stylistic, formal, and thematic patterns and motifs in Derrida's work that give rise to questions regarding writing, reading, and interpretation. Using Edgar Allan Poe's 'Madeline and Roderick Usher', Bram Stoker's 'Dracula', and Stephen King's 'Louis Creed', she illuminates Derrida's concerns with inheritance, revenance, and haunting and reflects on deconstruction as ghost writing. Castricano demonstrates that Derrida's "Specters of Marx" owes much to the Gothic insistence on the power of haunting and explores how deconstruction can be thought of as the ghost or deferred promise of Marxism. She traces the movement of the 'phantom' throughout Derrida's other texts, arguing that such writ

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Author

Carla Jodey Castricano

Publisher

McGill-Queen’s University Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780773569669

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Romance, Literary Fiction, Philosophy