Crimes of Writing
Problems in the Containment of Representation
Susan Stewart
Price: £49.95 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-506617-3
Publication date: 23 July 1992
368 pages, 13 halftones, 210x140 mm
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| - '`Susan Stewart's CRIMES OF WRITING is a valuable and original addition to a growing field of inquiry - one that is adjacent to the study of language and literature, but is more broadly concerned with psychological, social, cultural and even legal issues, than with literature alone... What is, however, highly original is her unusually versatile perceptiveness regarding a range of inscriptive
phenomena that transgress and therefore delimit (but also illuminate) the regulatory elements within social systems of representation`.
Peter Sacks, Johns Hopkins University.' -
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| Description | | Crimes of Writings
examines questions surrounding subjectivity, authenticity, and writing. First, Stewart examines cases of forgery, literary imposture, pornography and graffiti, and the development, from the early eighteenth century onward, of the laws articulating such crimes. Second, she uses `crimes of writing' to connote the ways in which such practices are in fact inversions or
negations of cultural rules. Finally, she claims that crimes of writing are delineated by law because they specifically undermine the status of the Law itself.
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| Authors, editors,
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Susan Stewart, Professor of English, Temple University
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