The Infinite Conversation (Theory and History of Literature Series)

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Published in France in 1969, this substantial addition to the ``Theory and History of Literature'' series could more readily be described as philosophy. Blanchot, a noted French literary critic who is as conversant with German literary philosophy as with French, has addressed the primary issues dealt with by literary scholars today: the nature of language, the narrative voice, the imaginary, nihilism, and the influence of religious thought. He uses examples ranging from Heraclitus to Pascal, Simone Weil, and Robert Antelme and launches into a major chapter on Nietzsche. Other writers that merit serious discussion are Camus, Kafka, Georges Bataille, Sade, Artaud, Rene Char, Flaubert, Roussel, Novalis, and Breton. While well written, this dense tome will find its audience only among literary scholars, theorists, and critics. Recommended for academic libraries.-- Ann Irvine, Montgomery Cty. P.L., Md.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780816619702
  • Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
  • Publication date: 12/28/1992
  • Series: Theory and History of Literature Series , #82
  • Pages: 510
  • Sales rank: 375,942
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 1.20 (d)

Table of Contents

Note
Foreword. This Double Exigency: Naming the Possible, Responding to the Impossible
Translator's Acknowledgments
I Plural Speech: (the speech of writing)
I Thought and the Exigency of Discontinuity 3
II The Most Profound Question 11
III Speaking Is Not Seeing 25
IV The Great Refusal 33
V Knowledge of the Unknown 49
VI Keeping to Words 59
VII The Relation of the Third Kind (man without horizon) 66
VIII Interruption (as on a Riemann surface) 75
IX A Plural Speech 80
II The Limit-Experience
I Heraclitus 85
II Measure, the Suppliant 93
III Tragic Thought 96
IV Affirmation (desire, affliction) 106
V The Indestructible 123
VI Reflections on Nihilism 136
VII Reflections on Hell 171
VIII Forgetting, Unreason 194
IX The Limit-Experience 202
X The Speech of Analysis 230
XI Everyday Speech 238
XII Atheism and Writing. Humanism and the Cry 246
XIII On a Change of Epoch: The Exigency of Return 264
III The Absence of the Book (the neutral, the fragmentary)
I The Final Work 285
II Cruel Poetic Reason (the rapacious need for flight) 293
III Rene Char and the Thought of the Neutral 298
IV The Fragment Word 307
V Forgetful Memory 314
VI Vast as the night 318
VII Words Must Travel Far 326
VIII Wittgenstein's Problem 332
IX A rose is a rose... 339
X Ars Nova 345
XI The Athenaeum 351
XII The Effect of Strangeness 360
XIII The End of the Hero 368
XIV The Narrative Voice (the "he," the neutral) 379
XV The Wooden Bridge (repetition, the neutral) 388
XVI Literature One More Time 397
XVII Tomorrow at Stake 407
XVIII The Absence of the Book 422
Notes 437
Index 465
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