Marking time : Derrida Blanchot Beckett des Forêts Klossowski Laporte / Ian Maclachlan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacLachlan, Ian.

Series:

Faux Titre 384.

Faux titre ; v. 384

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

French literature.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Derrida, Jacques--Criticism and interpretation.

Derrida, Jacques.

Derrida, Jacques--Influence.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Drawing on the work of Jacques Derrida, Marking Time presents an innovative account of literary time, in which the temporality and ontology of the literary are seen to be essentially intertwined. Individual chapters trace the stakes of this view of time for the status and ‘economy’ of the literary text across five 20th-century writers in French whose work is characterized by a fundamental and searching self-questioning: Maurice Blanchot, Samuel Beckett, Louis-René des Forêts, Pierre Klossowski, and Roger Laporte. A final chapter draws on these analyses to develop an inherently unstable figure of ‘saving time’, which has important repercussions for how we conceive of literary value.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Acknowledgements

Questions of literature and time

Marking time with Jacques Derrida

Time returning: Maurice Blanchot

The obstinate time of testimony: Louis-René des Forêts

Still time: Samuel Beckett

Making time for each other: Pierre Klossowski

Fugal time: Roger Laporte

Saving time: an invaluable offering

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

94-012-0880-8

OCLC:

831118697

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401208802 DOI