The impure art of quotation: Jarmusch-Paterson-Derrida

Abstract

The relation between cinema and literature, in the way it defies artistic thought and boundaries, allows for quotations which belong to or very nearly define the creative process itself. To quote is to relocate, to read, to recite – to repeat transforming, in fatally impure experience. Departing from Paterson, by Jim Jarmusch, from William Carlos Williams poetic rhythm, and based on Jacques Derrida’s Deconstruction, this paper reclaims the relationship between cinema and literature focusing on the quotation as “impure art”.