Gregg Maurice Blanchot and the Literature of Transgression

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ISBN: 978-1-4008-2127-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Gregg, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

A Note on Sources

Introduction 3

1 Literature and Transgression 10

2 Language, History, and Their Destinies of Incompletion 18

3 Blanchot's Suicidal Artist: Writing and the (Im)Possibility of Death 35

4 Mythical Portrayals of Writing and Reading 46

5 Writing the Disaster: Henri Sorge's Journal 72

Silencing the Critics of the State 72

An Awkward Silence 83

The Crisis of (Mis)Representation 87

The Poetics of Writing the Disaster 98

Ink-Stained Pages 108

Sorge's "Fable" and Fragments on Narcissus 115

Sorge's Revolt 121

6 Flagrants Delits: Caught in the Act of Self-Reading 127

Discreet Violations of the Noli 127

Getting Started, Finishing Up: The Pro/Epilogue of L'Attente l'oubli 132

Putting Their Story into Words 138

Perspectives of Authority 143

The Reversal 153

Flagrants delits 159

Qui parle? 162

De Man's Blind Spot 168

The Law of the Genre 171

Conclusion: Blanchot's Postmodern Legacy 173

Notes 201

Bibliography 233

Index 239

Über Autor(innen)

John Gregg is Assistant Professor of French at Indiana University, Bloomington.