The split scene of reading

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In The Split Scene of Reading, Sabine I. Golz demonstrates how the work of Austrian poet Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) draws the limits of the universe of European modern male "writing" from the outside, while Nietzsche, Kafka, and Derrida, by contrast, systematically repress the possibility Bachmann utilizes. Golz also exposes the intrinsic genderedness of Derrida's theorization of writing by taking deconstruction one step further than Derrida permits it to go. That additional step reveals that the stance assumed in Bachmann's work is a founding blindspot not only of Derridean deconstruction, but also of most contemporary criticism and literary theory