Rhetoric and Rhythm — Derrida, Nancy and the Poetics of Drawing. Issue 2 (July 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Gould, Thomas
• Is Part Of: Paragraph. Volume 44:Issue 2(2021)
• Page Start: 157
• Page End: 175
• Publication Date: 2021-07
• Subjects: Jacques Derrida -- Jean-Luc Nancy -- drawing -- poetics -- lineation; Criticism -- Periodicals; Literature -- History and criticism -- Periodicals; Art criticism -- Periodicals; 809
• DOI: 10.3366/para.2021.0363
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0264-8334

Abstract

Abstract : Opening with a consideration of the distribution of the two graphic acts — drawing and writing — this article offers a comparative study of Jacques Derrida's and Jean-Luc Nancy's respective exhibitions and catalogue essays on the subject of drawing. Through a comparative examination of what I take to be their central theoretical contributions to the study of drawing — Derrida its 'rhetoric', Nancy its 'rhythm' — this article moves on to suggest how these concepts inform a theory of poetic lineation.