Ebook: Marking Time: Derrida Blanchot Beckett des Forêts Klossowski Laporte
Author: Ian Maclachlan
- Tags: Derrida Jacques -- Criticism and interpretation. Derrida Jacques -- Influence. French literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Derrida Jacques. PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern. French literature. Influence (Literary artistic etc.)
- Series: Faux titre 384
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Rodopi
- City: Amsterdam
- Language: English
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Drawing on the work of Jacques Derrida, Marking Time presents an innovative account of literary time, in which the temporality and ontology of the literary are seen to be essentially intertwined. Individual chapters trace the stakes of this view of time for the status and 'economy' of the literary text across five 20th-century writers in French whose work is characterized by a fundamental and searching Read more...
Abstract: Drawing on the work of Jacques Derrida, Marking Time presents an innovative account of literary time, in which the temporality and ontology of the literary are seen to be essentially intertwined. Individual chapters trace the stakes of this view of time for the status and 'economy' of the literary text across five 20th-century writers in French whose work is characterized by a fundamental and searching self-questioning: Maurice Blanchot, Samuel Beckett, Louis-René des Forêts, Pierre Klossowski, and Roger Laporte. A final chapter draws on these analyses to develop an inherently unstable figure