Write, Rinse, Repeat: Text and Context in Derrida’s SEC and in Literary Studies
What today do we make of these issues, so central, so provocative, even galvanizing in Derrida’s early texts: significations and codes, speech and writing, citation and iterability? The temptation is to respond: not much. It’s been a long time since most literary critics or even theorists were moved by concerns pertaining to language and discourse. No doubt, this is with some right—these issues became "played out," as some say, with seemingly little new or urgent left to be said about them, o...
