Politics, writing, mutilation : the cases of Bataille, Blanchot, Roussel, Leiris, and Ponge / Allan Stoekl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stoekl, Allan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French literature--20th century--History and criticism.

French literature.

Politics in literature.

Utopias in literature.

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 159 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1985.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Politics, Writing, Mutilation was first published in 1985. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Five twentieth-century French writers played, and continue to play, a pivotal role in the development of literary-philosophical thinking that has come to be known in the United States as post-structuralism. The work of Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, Raymond Roussel, Michel Leiris, and Francis Ponge in the 1930's and 1940's amounts to a prehistory

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Utopias of Conflict, Urtexts of Deconstruction; CHAPTER ONE: Politics, Mutilation, Writing; CHAPTER TWO: Blanchot and the Silence of Specificity; CHAPTER THREE: Roussel's Revivifications of History; CHAPTER FOUR: Leiris's Unwritten Autobiography; CHAPTER FIVE: Ponge's Photographic Rhetoric; CHAPTER SIX: Betrayal in the Later Bataille; CHAPTER SEVEN: Derrida, Foucault, and Their ""Precursors""; CHAPTER EIGHT: Reading Avant-Garde Utopias; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Includes bibliography and index.

ISBN:

9780816655670

0816655677

9780816613007

0816613001

OCLC:

182732688