Signature Pieces On the Institution of Authorship

Some contemporary approaches to literature still accept the separation of historical, biographical, external concerns from formal, internal ones. On the borderline that lends this division between inside and outside its apparent coherence is signature. In Peggy Kamuf's view, studying signature...

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Main Author: Kamuf, Peggy (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Ithaca Cornell University Press 1988
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