Ways of Re-Thinking Literature

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-138-67575-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 371 g

Ways of Re-Thinking Literature creates a unique platform where leading literary thinkers and practitioners provide a multiplicity of views into what literature is today.

The texts gathered in this extraordinary collection range from philosophy to poetry, to theater, to cognitive sciences, to art criticism, to fiction, and their authors rank amongst the most significant figures in their fields, in France, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

Topics covered include an assessment of the role of literary narratives in contemporary writing, new considerations on the novel, a redefinition of the "poetic" factor in poetry and life, and a discussion of how literature engages with contemporary forms of individuality.

Under the auspices of literary luminaries Hélène Cixous and the late John Ashbery, these new pieces of writing bring to light contributions by innovative and well-established authors from the English-speaking sphere, as well as never-before translated prominent new voices in French theory.

Featuring original work from some of today’s most influential authors, Ways of Re-Thinking Literature is an indispensable tool for anybody interested in the future and possibilities of literature as an endeavor for life, thought, and creativity.

With special cover artwork by Rita Ackermann, the volume includes contributions from Emily Apter, Philippe Artières, John Ashbery, Paul Audi, Dodie Bellamy, Tom Bishop, Hélène Cixous, Laurent Dubreuil, Tristan Garcia, Stathis Gourgouris, Donatien Grau, Boris Groys, Shelley Jackson, Wayne Koestenbaum, Camille Laurens, Vanessa Place, Maël Renouard, Peter Schjeldahl, Adam Thirlwell, and Camille de Toledo.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bishop, Tom

Grau, Donatien

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Tom Bishop and Donatien Grau

Prelude: Golden Discount

John Ashbery

Part I: Literary Narratives

- The Disappearing Avant-Garde

Tom Bishop

- The Critical Life: Rethinking Biography in an Experimental Mode

Emily Apter

- What Literature Can Do

Philippe Artières

- Some Notes Towards a Literary Conception of Literature

Donatien Grau

Part II: Literature and the Novel

- The Installation as Novel

Boris Groys

- History of New Novels

Adam Thirlwell

- What becomes of the novel when the gods are coming back

Tristan Garcia

Part III: Literature and the Poetic

- The Varieties of Literary Experience

Peter Schjeldahl

- Intellection, Cognition, Contradiction

Laurent Dubreuil

- Heiner Müller’s Lyric Loneliness and the Mythical Body

Stathis Gourgouris

- The Route of the Impossible

Paul Audi

Part IV: A New Subjectivity

- Re-thinking, re-feeling literature

Camille Laurens

- Hoarding as Écriture

Dodie Bellamy

- Corpse Pose

Wayne Koestenbaum

- The Shelley Jackson Vocational School for Ghost Speakers and Hearing-Mouth Children

Shelley Jackson

- Some Fragments

Maël Renouard

- Fictional Habitation

Camille de Toledo

- Act two: Why I am a destiny

Vanessa Place

Conclusion: Ay yay! The Cry of Literature

Hélène Cixous

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.