Literature and Error: A Literary Take on Mistakes and Errors

by Edward T. Larkin (Editor), Virginia L. Lewis (Editor), Hugo Walter (Editor), Marc Porée (Editor), Isabelle Alfandary (Editor)

Overview

Literature and Error comprises a series of essays from French scholars who seek to lay down the foundations of a literary theory that would argue for the productivity of errors (and mistakes) in literary works.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781433136993
Publisher:	Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Publication date:	01/17/2018
Series:	Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature , #132
Edition description:	New
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)

About the Author

Marc Porée is Professor of English Literature at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he runs the LILA (Literature and Languages) Department and teaches British and postcolonial literature. When he is not publishing on Romantic poets and translating, Porée writes on British and postcolonial contemporary fiction and/or Victorian or contemporary poetry.

Isabelle Alfandary is Professor of American Literature at Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris, where she teaches American poetry, fiction, and critical theory. As Director of Programme at the Collège International de Philosophie (CIPh), her seminars deal with the intersection of philosophy and psychoanalysis. She recently authored Derrida-Lacan, L’écriture entre psychanalyse et déconstruction (2016).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments – Isabelle Alfandary/Marc Porée: Introduction – Marc Porée: Glances at a Poetics of Error – François Crampe: "Truth Broken in Prismatic Hues": False Prophets, Ambiguous Testimonies, and Poetic Truth in the Works of Robert Browning – Christine Savinel: Take a Closer Look, or the System of Error in Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetry – Fanny Quément: "That day I’ll be in step with what escaped me": Senses and the Rhythm of Error in the Work of Seamus Heaney – Jean-Jacques Lecercle: Error/Mirror: How to Generate Fiction – Jean-Pierre Naugrette: Has Mr. Utterson the Right to Err? – Catherine Lanone: Literature and the Sensation of Error – Dennis Tredy: Henry James’s "Theatre of Error and Renouncement": Guy Domville and the Novels of the Experimental Period – Isabelle Alfandary: Errare Americanum Est: On Errors in American Fiction – Sylvain Belluc: "Language Never Errs": A Saussurean Study of Some Mistakes in James Joyce’s Works – Juliette Nicolini: The—Forced? —Choice of Error in Sorrentino’s Writing – Laurent Mellet: Comic Mistakes and Intimate Errors in Jonathan Coe’s Fiction – Béatrice Pire: Jonathan Franzen’s Tragi-Comedy of Errors – Contributors.