The French Connections of Jacques Derrida

The French Connections of Jacques Derrida offers stimulating and accessible essays that address, for the first time, the issue of Derrida's relation to French poetics, writing, thought, and culture. In addition to offering considerations of Derrida through studies of such significant French authors as Mallarme, Baudelaire, Valery, Laporte, Ponge, Perec, Blanchot, and Barthes, the book also reassesses the development of Derrida's work in the context of structuralism, biology, and linguistics in the 1960s, and looks at the possible relationships between Derrida's writing and that of the Surrealist and Oulipa groups. Derrida is introduced as one whose work is as much poetic as it is philosophical, and who is strikingly French and yet not unproblematically so.

Boris Belay is a doctoral student at the State University of New York at Stonybrook John Brannigan is Head of Irish Studies at the University of Luton, where he also lectures in the English Department Christopher Johnson is lecturer in French at Keele University John P. Leavey Jr. teaches at the University of Florida Ian Maclachlan is a Lecturer in French at the University of Aberdeen Jessica Maynard teaches in the Department of English at King's College, London Laurent Milesi teaches English and American Literature and Critical Theory at Cardiff University of Wales Ruth Robbins is a lecturer in literary studies at the University of Luton Michael Syrotinski teaches Contemporary French and Francophone Literature and Culture at the University of Aberdeen Michael Temple is a lecturer in French at Queen Mary and Westfield College, London Burhan Tufail has taught at the University of North London and at Queen Mary and Westfield College Julian Wolfreys has taught at the universities of Luton and Dundee