In Memory of Jacques Derrida

Nicholas Royle is Professor of English at the University of Sussex. He is the author of many acclaimed books, including Telepathy and Literature (1991), The Uncanny (2003), In Memory of Jacques Derrida (2009) and (with Andrew Bennett) the influential textbook, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory (4th edition, 2009). He also writes fiction and has recently published his first novel, Quilt (2010).

A magnificent new work of scholarship, memory, and friendship. In Memory of Jacques Derrida is a truly virtuosic performance, by turns brilliant, lyrical, playful, witty, and deeply moving. -- Professor Michael Naas, DePaul University This is a fantastic, fabulous book. It is a production in which something unprecedented happens, a signature the like of which is to be found nowhere else. -- Professor Geoffrey Bennington, Emory University One can read this book both as a demonstration of the value of a Derridean approach to literature, and to Shakespeare's language in particular, and as testimony to the difference Derrida, the man and the work, made to one individual. -- Derek Attridge Oxford Literary Review A magnificent new work of scholarship, memory, and friendship. In Memory of Jacques Derrida is a truly virtuosic performance, by turns brilliant, lyrical, playful, witty, and deeply moving. This is a fantastic, fabulous book. It is a production in which something unprecedented happens, a signature the like of which is to be found nowhere else. One can read this book both as a demonstration of the value of a Derridean approach to literature, and to Shakespeare's language in particular, and as testimony to the difference Derrida, the man and the work, made to one individual.

• Acknowledgements; Foreword; The Poet: Julius Caesar and the Democracy to Come; Not Now; Or Again, Meddling; Derrida's Event; Woo't; Jacques Derrida's Language (Bin Laden on the Telephone); Impossible Uncanniness: Deconstruction and Queer Theory;Forgetting well; Last