By Julian Wolfreys
Via a chain of brief essays, Readings lines the honour given to the act of shut studying in literary feedback and conception over the past thirty years.Focusing on brief passages from a couple of serious works, together with these by means of Barthes, Cixous, de guy, Derrida, Foucault, Kristeva, Lacan and J. Hillis Miller among others, the essays enact shut readings of the trope of examining - its events and performances in all the passages in query - with a purpose to supply a extra special comprehension of the character of analyzing, and the ways that severe considering has reworked our figuring out of what it potential to read.Readings addresses in a full of life and interesting demeanour the various rhythms and articulations made attainable throughout the cautious tracing of the method of severe studying which literary thought has made available."
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Hence, the impossible responsibility Everything we read: remains of asking all the while who wrote my poem? Who wrote my poem? What is to be done? How to translate? What is it to read? 02 pages 001-172 3/2/03 10:10 Page 27 Paris is Burning (1991) is a film … about drag balls in New York City, attended by, performed by ‘men’ who are either African-American or Latino. The balls are contests in which the contestants compete under a variety of categories. … ‘Realness’ is not exactly a category in which one competes; it is a standard that is used to judge any given performance within the established categories.
This is read by Cixous in that concession of what reading changes. 24 Already on the way to reading, there is, in the negotiation of this passage between what can be said about reading and what is unreadable, the tacit articulation of the remark that has already escaped Everything we read: remains and which speaks of reading’s escape 02 pages 001-172 3/2/03 10:10 Page 38 This page intentionally left blank 02 pages 001-172 3/2/03 10:10 Page 39 It is again a question of ‘the other’ … this term names the event in poetry, meaning and inscription which escapes human control, grounding or anticipation … The other is engaged in writing in terms of an ineluctable secondarity in written meaning – for even in being inscribed the written presents itself as simultaneously read through the resonance of significations unanticipated in the act of inscription … The other names the space ‘of deferred reciprocity between reading and writing’.
With this sought-after mastery, there is expressed a desire to account for that which it addresses, whether the meaning of its own texts, or the texts of others, as part of a teleological process, where reading, in a totalising, utopian translation, means reading-towards-socialism. However, in the face of this movement, Bennington offers a reading in the place of not-reading, which appears in the guise of reading-towardssocialism. Unfolding the logic and movement of the latter, his reading acts as a counter-signature to the seemingly inexorable progress.
