Titlebook: Ghost Writing in Contemporary American Fiction; David Coughlan Book 2016 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 American Lit

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1. Introduction: Of Spectrality,close engagement with Jacques Derrida’s .. Though this text is widely credited with initiating theory’s spectral turn, many ghost scholars have shown a reluctance to speak to the Derridean specter, preferring ontology over hauntology. Employing the language of conjuration and exorcism, however, Coug

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Ghost Writing, Double Session” from .. Coughlan details the way in which Derrida presents the mime as a phantom that presents nothing and represents nothing, appearing as the double of no one, as a copy without model, as an allusion without source, or as a graft without root. Coughlan argues that Derrida here con

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Shadows, question of the ghost or shadow and why therefore the question of following unsettles any sense of an undivided present. This present divided between past and future is understood in terms of the . (the step or pace that is also no pace) that Derrida tracks through the work of Maurice Blanchot and

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3. One Pace After the Other: Paul Auster,e relationship between self and other as an always incomplete step toward the other. With reference to Auster’s work over a 20-year period, the chapter shows how he represents his characters as specters and how their survival between two deaths is predicated on an openness to another who, neverthele

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Haunts,ter traces the historical, biographical, cultural, and literary narratives inscribed in Quinn’s passage, which takes him through many of Auster’s old neighborhoods or haunts. Finding himself diverted by a personal matter and unable to complete Quinn’s story, Coughlan reads his situation in terms of

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4. Exit Ghost Writer: Philip Roth,r to his subject in terms of a responsibility to the dead and a necessary betrayal of the dead. It argues that this inevitable interruption of the other’s story is an interruption of the self’s story also, which Roth illustrates by creating series of ghost writers who haunt the one story, the one na