Faith in the Ghosts of Literature. Poetic Hauntology in Derrida, Blanchot and Morrison’s Beloved

Literature, this paper argues, is a privileged language that can give form to those specters of existence that resist the traditional ontological boundaries of being and non-being, alive and dead. This I describe as the “hauntology” of literature. Literature, unlike our everyday, referential langua...

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Main Author: Elisabeth M. Loevlie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2013-07-01
Series:Religions
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/4/3/336