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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789318703321

Autore

Sussman Henry

Titolo

Idylls of the wanderer [[electronic resource] ] : outside in literature and theory / / Henry Sussman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-8232-3527-0

0-8232-4797-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Disciplina

809/.93353

Soggetti

Outsiders in literature

Outsiders in motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Title Page ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Preface ""; ""Chapter 1: Idylls of the Wanderer ""; ""Chapter 2: On the Butcher Block: A Panorama of Social Marking ""; ""Chapter 3: Exiles in Writing: Joyce and Benjamin ""; ""Chapter 4: James Baldwin�s Exile: Theory, Circumstance, and the Real of Language ""; ""Chapter 5: William Faulkner and the Romance of the American Drifter ""; ""Chapter 6: The Afterlife of Judaism: The Zohar, Benjamin, Miller""; ""Chapter 7: Modernist Night: Distortion, Regression, and Oblivion in the Fiction of Bruno Schulz ""

""Chapter 8: Incarcerated in Amerika: Literature Addresses the Political, with the Help of Ernesto Laclau """"Notes ""; ""Index ""; ""Untitled""

Sommario/riassunto

An extended inquiry into the dimension of exteriority constructed by philosophical systems and literary works, this text reviews works by James Baldwin, Walter Benjamin, William Faulkner and James Joyce.