Blanchot's writings on literature have imposed themselves in the canon of modern literary theory and yet have remained a mysterious presence. This is in part due to their almost hypnotic literary style, in part due to their distinctive amalgam of a...
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Blanchot's writings on literature have imposed themselves in the canon of modern literary theory and yet have remained a mysterious presence. This is in part due to their almost hypnotic literary style, in part due to their distinctive amalgam of a number of philosophical sources (Hegel, Heidegger, Levinas, Bataille), which, although hardly unknown in the Anglophone philosophical world, have not yet made themselves fully at home in literary theory. This book aims to make visible the coherence of Blanchot's critical project
Includes bibliographical references (p. [143-148) and index
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction: Blanchot and Literary Criticism; 1 The Modern Age and the 'Work' of Literature; 2 Poetic Solitude: Two Essays on Hölderlin; 3 Mallarmé and Modern Poetics; 4 The Ambiguity of the Negative; 5 Myth and Representation in Blanchot's Literary Criticism; Reprise: Blanchot and Literary Criticism; Selected Bibliography; Index;
