TY - BOOK AU - Haiyan Ren PY - 2014 CY - Lausanne, Switzerland PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 9783035107395 TI - Différance in Signifying Robinson Crusoe T2 - Defoe, Tournier, Coetzee and Deconstructive Re-visions of a Myth DO - 10.3726/978-3-0351-0739-5 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1053008 N2 - Deconstructive rewritings are re-visions. This monograph engages Robinson Crusoe in tandem with two of its re-visions, Michel Tournier’s Friday and J. M. Coetzee’s Foe, from the perspective of the Enlightenment ideology. Basing the argument upon the assumption that Robinson Crusoe is a myth of the Enlightenment ideology representing the master narrative of the Enlightenment discourse, the book examines how the major ideological themes of the Enlightenment master narrative as manifested through the myth of Robinson Crusoe are rearticulated in Friday and Foe. It dismantles how these two re-visions, through deconstructive freeplay, question and more importantly deconstruct the basic premises and principles, or the concepts that enjoy the full presence of an absolute signified in the myth of Robinson Crusoe. Thus these re-visions not only transform the logocentric repressive structure in Defoe’s text into open-ended and dialogic discourses, they also partly constitute a chain of différance in signifying the myth of Robinson Crusoe. The author desires to generate large-scale understandings from small-scale insights through this research. KW - Enlightenment ideology, master narrative, freeplay LA - English ER -