"Repetition and Identity offers a theory of the existing thing as such. A thing only has identity and consistency when it has already been repeated, but repetition summons difference and the shadow invocation of a connecting sign. In contrast to the perspectives of Post-structur…
In this book, Catherine Pickstock offers philosophico-theological proposals to the field of literary theory. To older Post-structuralist concerns with the indeterminacy of the sign, and newer ones with naturalism and the Body, she adds dimensions of ontology and theology. To dem…
Repetition and identity: the literary agenda
"'Repetition and Identity offers a theory of the existing thing as such. A thing only has identity and consistency when it has already been repeated, but repetition summons difference and the shadow invocation of a connecting sign. In contrast to the perspectives of Post-structu…
