Ways of Re-Thinking Literature (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Bishop, Tom; Grau, Donatien

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Produktbeschreibung

Ways of Re-Thinking Literature is a collection of inspiring, thoughtful, creative and critical essays by leading scholars and writers, including Helene Cixous. It examines the connections and dialogue between the critical and creative in literary studies, showing that the interaction between these two spheres provide moments of extraordinary creativity in literary as well as theoretical terms.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317198406
• Artikelnr.: 54059643

Autorenporträt

Tom Bishop is the Florence Lacaze Gould Professor of French, Professor of French and Comparative Literature at New York University (NYU), USA. For fifty years, he served as Chair of the department of French at NYU and Director of the Center for French Civilization and Culture. Amongst his many publications are: From the Left Bank: Reflections on the Modern French Theater and Novel (1997) and Pirandello and the French Theater (1960, 1970). Donatien Grau is a Guest Curator at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA. He holds a doctorat in French and comparative literature from the Sorbonne, France, and a DPhil from the University of Oxford, UK. He was twice a Guest Resarch Researcher at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles; a Florence Gould Lecturer, New York University; a Special Guest of French Studies, Cornell University; a Visiting Scholar, Stevanonich Institute for the Formation of Knowledge, University of Chicago; a teaching fellow, Sorbonne and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Tom Bishop and Donatien Grau
Prelude: Golden Discount
John Ashbery
Part I: Literary Narratives
1. The Disappearing Avant-Garde
Tom Bishop
2. The Critical Life: Rethinking Biography in an Experimental Mode
Emily Apter
3. What Literature Can Do
Philippe Artières
4. Some Notes Towards a Literary Conception of Literature
Donatien Grau
Part II: Literature and the Novel
5. The Installation as Novel
Boris Groys
6. History of New Novels
Adam Thirlwell
7. What becomes of the novel when the gods are coming back
Tristan Garcia
Part III: Literature and the Poetic
8. The Varieties of Literary Experience
Peter Schjeldahl
9. Intellection, Cognition, Contradiction
Laurent Dubreuil
10. Heiner Müller's Lyric Loneliness and the Mythical Body
Stathis Gourgouris
11. The Route of the Impossible
Paul Audi
Part IV: A New Subjectivity
12. Re-thinking, re-feeling literature
Camille Laurens
13. Hoarding as Écriture
Dodie Bellamy
14. Corpse Pose
Wayne Koestenbaum
15. The Shelley Jackson Vocational School for Ghost Speakers and
Hearing-Mouth Children
Shelley Jackson
16. Some Fragments
Maël Renouard
17. Fictional Habitation
Camille de Toledo
18. Act two: Why I am a destiny
Vanessa Place
Conclusion: Ay yay! The Cry of Literature
Hélène Cixous
Index