Understanding Blanchot, understanding modernism / edited by Christopher Langlois.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Langlois, Christopher, author.

Series:

Understanding philosophy, understanding modernism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blanchot, Maurice.

Modernism (Literature).

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Physical Description:

xv, 325 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.

Contents:

Introduction: against praise of Maurice Blanchot / Christopher Langlois

Part 1: Conceptualizing Blanchot. Critical first steps : on Faux pas / Cosmin Toma

Thus spoke literature / Hannes Opelz

Absolute modernism and the space of literature / James Martell

Writing the future: Blanchot's Le livre / Venir Leslie Hill

Literature outside the law : Blanchot's The infinite conversation / Christopher Langlois

"Exacerbating the self-critical tendency" : ethics and critique in Le pas au-del�a / Aicha Liviana Messina

Part 2: Blanchot and aesthetic. Writing as �Uberfluss : Blanchot's reading of Kafka's diaries / Michael Holland

I hear my destiny in the rustling of an oak : Blanchot's Char / Kevin Hart

Neutral conditions : Blanchot, Beckett, and the space of writing / Jonathan Boulter

The look of nothingness : Blanchot and the image / Jeff Fort

"The call of the anterior" : Blanchot, Lacan, and the death drive / Allan Pero

"Unmade according to his image" or, night for day : Blanchot and the blacknesses of cinema figure / Kevin Bell

Part 3: Glossary. Disaster / William S. Allen

Fragmentary writing / William S. Allen

Community / Joseph Albernaz

D'soeuvrement / Michael Krimper

The neuter/the neutral / John McKeane

Passivity / Patrick Lyons

Literature / Audrey Wasser

Outside / Audrey Wasser

Friendship / A'cha Liviana Messina.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Understanding Blanchot, understanding modernism.

ISBN:

9781501331374

150133137X

OCLC:

1009279301