Literature And Event
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| Author | : Ilai Rowner |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 327 |
| Release | : 2015-01-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0803245858 |
What is an event? From a philosophical perspective, events are irregular occurrences—moments of change and interruption—categorized by human perception, language, and thought. While philosophers have pored over the subject of events extensively in recent years, The Event: Literature and Theory seeks to ground it: What is literature’s approach to the event? How does literature produce and give testimony to events? Ilai Rowner’s study not only revisits some of the most important thinkers of our time, including Maurice Blanchot, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, and Martin Heidegger, it also develops a critical approach to literature that questions the meaning of the literary event through examinations of literary works by Marcel Proust, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, and T. S. Eliot. Rowner offers a new method of thinking about the particular characteristics of the event within literary works and defines the creative value of literature as the aspiration toward the un-happening within the happening. In this study the experience of literature—as an act of both writing and reading—becomes the struggle to capture the excessive movement of the event while also revealing the creative energy within that work of literature.
| Author | : Terry Eagleton |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 261 |
| Release | : 2012-05-29 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0300182597 |
In this characteristically concise, witty, and lucid book, Terry Eagleton turns his attention to the questions we should ask about literature, but rarely do. What is literature? Can we even speak of "literature" at all? What do different literary theories tell us about what texts mean and do? In throwing new light on these and other questions he has raised in previous best-sellers, Eagleton offers a new theory of what we mean by literature. He also shows what it is that a great many different literary theories have in common. In a highly unusual combination of critical theory and analytic philosophy, the author sees all literary work, from novels to poems, as a strategy to contain a reality that seeks to thwart that containment, and in doing so throws up new problems that the work tries to resolve. The "event" of literature, Eagleton argues, consists in this continual transformative encounter, unique and endlessly repeatable. Freewheeling through centuries of critical ideas, he sheds light on the place of literature in our culture, and in doing so reaffirms the value and validity of literary thought today.
| Author | : Mantra Mukim |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 286 |
| Release | : 2021-11-29 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1000505588 |
If "event" is a proper name we reserve for monumental changes, crises, transitions and ruptures that are by their very nature unnameable or unthinkable, then this volume is an attempt to set up an encounter between such eventhood as it comes to have a bearing on literary works and the work of reading literature. As the event continues to provide a valuable analytical paradigm for work undertaken within the newer subdisciplines of literary and critical theory, including close reading, bio- politics, world literature, and eco- criticism, this volume makes a concerted effort to update the scholarship in this area and foreground the recent resurgence of interest in the concept. The book provides both a retrospective appraisal of the significance of events to literary studies and the literary humanities, as well as contemporary and prospective appraisals of the same, and thus would appeal scholars and instructors in the areas of literary theory, comparative literature and philosophical aesthetics alike. Along with a specialist focus on thinkers such as Derrida, Badiou, Deleuze and Malabou, the essays in this volume read a wide corpus of literature ranging from Han Kang, Homer, Renee Gladman, Proust and Flaubert to Yoruba ideophones, Browning, Anne Carson, Jenichiro Oyabe and Ben Lerner.
| Author | : Asja Szafraniec |
| Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780804754576 |
The late Jacques Derrida’s notion of literature is explored in this new study. Starting with Derrida’s self-professed inability to comment on the work of Samuel Beckett, whom Derrida nevertheless considered one of the most interesting and exemplary writers of our time, Asja Szafraniec argues that the shared feature of literary works as Derrida understands them is a double, juridical-economical gesture, and that one aspect of this notion (the juridical) is more hospitable to Beckett’s oeuvre than the other. She then discusses other contemporary philosophical approaches to Beckett, including those of Gilles Deleuze, Stanley Cavell, and Alain Badiou. The book offers an innovative analysis of Derrida’s approach to literature, as well as an overview of current philosophical approaches to contemporary literature, and a number of innovative readings of Beckett’s work.
| Author | : Terry Eagleton |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 265 |
| Release | : 2012-05-29 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0300178816 |
Offers a thorough examination of the philosophy of literature, looking at the place of literature in human culture, what literature can be defined as and much more.
| Author | : M. Aquilina |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 265 |
| Release | : 2014-09-16 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1137426926 |
The Event of Style in Literature brings discussions about the question of style up-to-date by schematising the principal issues relating to the topic through a critical overview of the canon of style studies. It reads the work of Jacques Derrida, Maurice Blanchot, and Hans-Georg Gadamer as groundbreaking and 'eventful' interventions.
| Author | : Jonathan Bennett |
| Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 1988-01-01 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780872200456 |
In this study of events and their places in our language and thought, Bennett propounds and defends views about what kind of item an event is, how the language of events works, and about how these two themes are interrelated. He argues that most of the supposedly metaphysical literature is really about the semantics of their names, and that the true metaphysic of events--known by Leibniz and rediscovered by Kim--has not been universally accepted because it has been tarred with the brush of a false semantic theory.
| Author | : Hester Blum |
| Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2016-04 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0812247981 |
American literary studies has undergone a series of field redefinitions that have been described as turns, whether transnational, aesthetic, or affective. Turns of Event: Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies in Motion argues that the propensity of the field to reinvent itself without dissolution is one of its greatest strengths.
| Author | : Mantra Mukim |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2022 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781032157412 |
Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- From, Event -- Philosophy's Dice -- Disciplinary Action -- Historiography and Event -- Traumatic Event -- Politics, Ethics and the Event -- Literature's Answer -- What Is (a) Literary Event? -- I.3.b What Become of Language? -- I.3.c How Can the Literary Event Be Read? -- I.3.d What Is at Stake With the Literary Event? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Section I Senses -- 1 Plasticity and the Event of Literature: Reading Catherine Malabou With Anne Carson -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2 Margin, Letter, and Sentence: The Graphic Event -- Margin: Barthes' Twombly -- Letter: Twombly With Dickinson -- Sentence: Pure Syntax -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3 Unexceptional Events -- Or, Cixous's Scarcely Audible Literature -- Cixous's Genius -- The Unexceptional -- Almost Silent Homonymy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 'Peut-Être Aurais-Je Dû Penser': Research and Event in Proust -- Socrates' Leisure and the Vocation of the Philosopher -- The Event of Research -- 'Peut-être Aurais-Je Dû Penser' -- Research and Literature -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Section II Possibility/Impossibility -- 5 Poetics of the Event Or Evental Poetics?: Writing as Becoming Imperceptible in Howard Barker's Hurts Given and Received -- The Phantasm of Revolutionary Writing -- Bach's Evental Poetics: Hurts Given and Received -- Evental Poetics and the Aporias of Pain and the Other -- Poetic Event, Intimacy, and Infection -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 6 Literature, Event, and Formal Compossibility -- Totality and Commensurability -- Multiplicity and Compossibility -- Judgment and the Count -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 7 The Withness of the Earth: Haptic Epistemology in Climatic Times -- Apocalypse Now -- The Wit(h)ness of the Body.
| Author | : Cate Marvin |
| Publisher | : Copper Canyon Press |
| Total Pages | : 97 |
| Release | : 2022-07-12 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 1619322552 |
With poems that contemplate the everyday―errands, gardening, dog walks―or confront the white-body supremacy of local sunbathers, Cate Marvin reckons with the hurt of our patriarchal world, facing her own past, toxic relationships and pondering what we can gain by leaving some loved-ones behind. Her brilliant fourth poetry collection exists just outside of calamity. Set between the violent realm of patriarchy and the bright otherworld of female agency and survival, these are poems of pointed humor and quick intellect, radical exposure and (re)vision. At Marvin’s table, the knife of domesticity becomes a threat, sharpened and shined. Misogyny pulls the sheets from the bed; motherhood wails from the backseat of the car; our hero is ghosted (abandoned, haunted) by past friends and beloveds. Event Horizon asks, at what point do we disappear into our experiences? How do we come out on the other side?
