Derrida and the Art of Embalming: Thanatopraxie in "Tithonus" and A Tale ofa Tub  

作　　者：Jayjit Sarkar Jagannath Basu 

机构地区：[1]Raiganj University,Sitalkuchi College

出　　处：《Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures》2020年第2期80-89,共10页外国语言与文化（英文）

摘　　要：Taking a cue from Jacques Derrida's Glas,this paper seeks to understand the idea of thanatopraxie or embalming in art.It sees thanatopraxie as a strategy to(en)counter the prevalent idea of a“book”as the repository of the“truth”and the“divine.”It argues that a work of art can only exist in the world by transforming into“what(ever)remains”of a work-a wo-.Thanatopraxie thus,brings down a work from the realm of the transcendental and the divine to the world of banal existence.And,in order to comprehend these maneuverings,this paper looks into“Tithonus”and A Tale of Tub as texts where the“penetrable openings”are purposely kept open for the transformation of a work(in)to a wo-.

关 键 词：thanatopraxie DERRIDA DEATH threshold work wo- 

分 类 号：I0[文学—文学理论]