Idylls of the wanderer : outside in literature and theory / Henry Sussman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sussman, Henry.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Outsiders in literature.

Outsiders in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An extended inquiry into the dimension of exteriority constructed by philosophical systems and literary works, this text reviews works by James Baldwin, Walter Benjamin, William Faulkner and James Joyce.

Contents:

""Title Page ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Preface ""; ""Chapter 1: Idylls of the Wanderer ""; ""Chapter 2: On the Butcher Block: A Panorama of Social Marking ""; ""Chapter 3: Exiles in Writing: Joyce and Benjamin ""; ""Chapter 4: James Baldwin�s Exile: Theory, Circumstance, and the Real of Language ""; ""Chapter 5: William Faulkner and the Romance of the American Drifter ""; ""Chapter 6: The Afterlife of Judaism: The Zohar, Benjamin, Miller""; ""Chapter 7: Modernist Night: Distortion, Regression, and Oblivion in the Fiction of Bruno Schulz ""

""Chapter 8: Incarcerated in Amerika: Literature Addresses the Political, with the Help of Ernesto Laclau """"Notes ""; ""Index ""; ""Untitled""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8232-3527-0

0-8232-4797-X

OCLC:

794702332