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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808764803321

Autore

Stoekl Allan

Titolo

Politics, writing, mutilation : the cases of Bataille, Blanchot, Roussel, Leiris, and Ponge / / Allan Stoekl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 1985

©1985

ISBN

0-8166-5567-7

0-8166-1300-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xix, 159 pages)

Disciplina

840/.9/00912

Soggetti

French literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Politics in literature

Utopias in literature

Modernism (Literature)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Utopias of Conflict, Urtexts of Deconstruction; CHAPTER ONE: Politics, Mutilation, Writing; CHAPTER TWO: Blanchot and the Silence of Specificity; CHAPTER THREE: Roussel's Revivifications of History; CHAPTER FOUR: Leiris's Unwritten Autobiography; CHAPTER FIVE: Ponge's Photographic Rhetoric; CHAPTER SIX: Betrayal in the Later Bataille; CHAPTER SEVEN: Derrida, Foucault, and Their ""Precursors""; CHAPTER EIGHT: Reading Avant-Garde Utopias; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Politics, Writing, Mutilation was first published in 1985. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Five twentieth-century French writers played, and continue to play, a pivotal role in the development of literary-philosophical thinking that has come to be known in the United States as post-structuralism. The work of Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, Raymond Roussel, Michel Leiris, and Francis Ponge in the 1930's and 1940's amounts to a prehistory