Audrey Wasser

The Work of Difference

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book mounts a critique of persistently romantic assumptions in contemporary literary criticism and advances an original theory of literary production. Along the way, it offers new readings of major modernist novels of Samuel Beckett, Marcel Proust, and Gertrude Stein.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9780823270057
• ISBN-10: 082327005X
• Artikelnr.: 43415933

Autorenporträt

Audrey Wasser is Assistant Professor of French at Miami University, Ohio.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1
1. Form and Fragmentation: Romantic Legacies
2. The Book of the World: Form and Intent in New Criticism, Revisited
3. Tyranny of the Possible: Blanchot
4. A Genesis of the New: Deleuze
5. From Figure to Fissure: Self-Correction in Beckett's Molloy, Malone
Dies, and The Unnamable
6. Hyperbole In Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu
7. "How Anything Can Be Different from What It Is": Tautology in Stein's
The Making of Americans
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited
Index