Ilai Rowner

Event (eBook, ePUB)

Literature and Theory

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What is an event? From a philosophical perspective, events are irregular occurrences-moments of change and interruption-categorized by human perception, language, and thought. While philosophers have pored over the subject of events extensively in recent years, The Event: Literature and Theory seeks to ground it: What is literature's approach to the event? How does literature produce and give testimony to events? Ilai Rowner's study not only revisits some of the most important thinkers of our time, including Maurice Blanchot, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, and Martin Heidegger, it also develops a critical approach to literature that questions the meaning of the literary event through examinations of literary works by Marcel Proust, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, and T. S. Eliot. Rowner offers a new method of thinking about the particular characteristics of the event within literary works and defines the creative value of literature as the aspiration toward the un-happening within the happening. In this study the experience of literature-as an act of both writing and reading-becomes the struggle to capture the excessive movement of the event while also revealing the creative energy within that work of literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780803286481
• Artikelnr.: 41873122

Autorenporträt

Ilai Rowner is an adjunct lecturer of French and comparative literature at Tel Aviv University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Historical Event, Narrative Event, Literary Event
2. INTERMEZZO: The Cave in Homer’s Odyssey and the Café in Marguerite
Duras’s Moderato Cantabile
Part One: Theory
3. Martin Heidegger: The Event of Appropriation
4. Maurice Blanchot: The Event of Dying
5. Jacques Derrida: The Non-Advent of the Event
6. Gilles Deleuze: The Becoming of the Event
Part Two: Literature
7. Toward a Theory of Literary Events: Conceptions and Principles
8. AIR RAID ONE: Marcel Proust’s Time Regained
9. Writing Corporeally: A Vital Move
10. AIR RAID TWO: Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s Fable for Another Time
11. AIR RAID THREE: T. S. Eliot’s “Little Gidding” from Four Quartets
12. Conclusion: Being Is in the Hands of the Event
Notes
Bibliography
Index