In this Book
- The Work of Difference: Modernism, Romanticism, and the Production of Literary Form
- Book
- 2016
- Published by: Fordham University Press
summary
The Work of Difference addresses a fundamental ontological question: What is literature? And at the heart of this question, it argues, is the problem of the new. How is it that new works or new forms are possible within the rule-governed orders of history, language use, or the social? How are new works in turn recognizable to already-existing institutions? Tracing the relationship between literature and the problem of newness back to a set of concerns first articulated in early German romanticism, this book goes on to mount a critique of romantic tendencies in contemporary criticism in order, ultimately, to develop an original theory of literary production. Along the way, it offers new readings of major modernist novels by Samuel Beckett, Marcel Proust, and Gertrude Stein.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. 1-10
- 3. Tyranny of the Possible: Blanchot
- pp. 52-71
- 4. A Genesis of the New: Deleuze
- pp. 72-93
- Conclusion
- pp. 160-162
- Bibliography
- pp. 185-200
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 207-208
Additional Information
ISBN
9780823270101
Related ISBN(s)
9780823270057
MARC Record
OCLC
939195516
Pages
216
Launched on MUSE
2016-02-15
Language
English
Open Access
No