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Compagnon, Antoine
Montaigne used to say that in writing "we are only glossing one another" and, judging by The Essays, he was leading by example. All discourse is repetition and all writing is gloss: everything has been said, that is the law of language, the condition of discourse. However, there are many ways to repeat what has been said before. One of them, the most flagrant, constitutes the starting point and the horizon of this book: the quotation, not only the quotation itself, but also the work of the quotation, the repetition or the second-hand reference, as a fact of institutional language and practice. To understand it, it will be necessary to analyze how it works in reading and writing, how it makes sense in the text and what values ??it has acquired throughout history. The analysis of the quotation as a persistent device of every discursive artifact allows Compagnon to deal with her inalienable passions: Montaigne and Borges, of course, but especially reading and writing, two sides of a devilish coin.
- Author
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Compagnon, Antoine
- Subject
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Literature
> Literary criticism
- EAN
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9788417902414
- ISBN
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978-84-17902-41-4
- Edition
- 1
- Publisher
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Acantilado
- Pages
- 528
- High
- 21.0 cm
- Weight
- 13.1 cm
- Release date
- 30-09-2020
- Language
- Spanish
- Series
- Acantilado
- Number
- 410