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This text examines the anxiety of origins about the literary enterprise. Using case studies, Meltzer reveals the tenuous status of originality as a basic principle of the critical establishment. She shows how a threat to a writer's status as creator betrays the originality myth itself.

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Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Freud and Descartes: Dreaming On 2: Paul Celan and the Death of the Book 3: Disappropriating Colette 4: Walter Benjamin and the Right to Acedia Conclusion Index

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      Publisher: University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 3/1/1994 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226519753, 978-0226519753
      ISBN10: 0226519759

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This text examines the anxiety of origins about the literary enterprise. Using case studies, Meltzer reveals the tenuous status of originality as a basic principle of the critical establishment. She shows how a threat to a writer's status as creator betrays the originality myth itself.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Freud and Descartes: Dreaming On 2: Paul Celan and the Death of the Book 3: Disappropriating Colette 4: Walter Benjamin and the Right to Acedia Conclusion Index

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