Repetition and Identity The Literary Agenda

In this book, Catherine Pickstock offers philosophico-theological proposals to the field of literary theory. To older Post-structuralist concerns with the indeterminacy of the sign, and newer ones with naturalism and theBody, she adds dimensions of ontology and theology. To demonstrate her claim that the mystery of things can only be unravelled through the repetitions of fiction, history, inhabited subjectivity and revealed event, sheperformsthe argument that her text seeks to articulate. Thereby she offers not just a work of theory, but a new direction for philosophy.