Grau / Bishop Literary Thoughts

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-317-19839-0
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 238 Seiten

Literary Thoughts is a collection of inspiring, thoughtful, creative and critical essays by leading scholars and writers including Avital Ronell, Jesse Ball, Joshua Cohen, Brosi Groys, Ben Lerner, Wayne Koestenbaum, Simon Critchley, Stathis Gourgouris, Shelley Jackson, Paul Audi, Emily Apter, Laurent Dubreuil, Donatien Grau, Tristan Garcia, and Camille Toledo, with an opening text that is a new writing by 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grau, Donatien

Bishop, Tom

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Opening text: Helen Cixous

Part I: Situations

1. The Turn of the Screwed, Avital Ronell (NYU)

2. The Book and its Phantom, Jesse Ball (MFA, Chicago)

3. WIKI. What I Know Is, Joshua Cohen

4. The Art Installation as a Novel, Boris Groys (NYU)

5. Virtual Ekphrasis: Fiction as Criticism and Curation, Ben Lerner (Brooklyn College)

Part II: Positions

6. Corpse Pose, Wayne Koestenbaum (CUNY)

7. Ways of Re-Thinking Literature: What we Learn from Hamlet, Simon Critchley (New School)

8. Heiner Muller’s Lyrical Loneliness, Stathis Gourgouris (Columbia University)

9. The Shelley Jackson School for Ghost Speakers and Hearing Mouth Children, Shelley Jackson (New School)

10. Literature beyond Good and Evil. An a-moral perspective into literature, Paul Audi

Part III: Propositions

11. Rethinking the Textual Object: Translated, Curated, Punctuated, Looked at, Listened to…, Emily Apter (NYU)

12. Cognition, Intellection, Contradiction, Laurent Dubreil (Cornell University)

13. Some Notes Towards a Literary Definition of Literature, Donatien Grau (Oxford University)

15. What Becomes of Fiction when the Gods are Coming Back? A Secular Form of Literature Facing the Return of Religion, Tristan Garcia

16. Empowering Literature in the C21st, Camille de Toledo