LEADER 03661nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910780049403321 005 20230824160417.0 010 $a1-282-75193-X 010 $a9786612751936 010 $a1-4008-2127-4 010 $a1-4008-1186-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400821273 035 $a(CKB)111056486502466 035 $a(EBL)617274 035 $a(OCoLC)705526967 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000199398 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11169260 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000199398 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10196555 035 $a(PQKB)10300324 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC617274 035 $a(OCoLC)51575491 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35966 035 $a(DE-B1597)446088 035 $a(OCoLC)979581287 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400821273 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL617274 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10031976 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL275193 035 $a(PPN)187292205 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486502466 100 $a19930721d1994 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMaurice Blanchot and the literature of transgression /$fJohn Gregg 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc1994 215 $a1 online resource (254 pages) 311 0 $a0-691-03329-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [233]-237) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tA NOTE ON SOURCES --$tIntroduction --$tONE. Literature and Transgression --$tTWO. Language, History, and Their Destinies of Incompletion --$tTHREE. Blanchot's Suicidal Artist --$tFOUR. Mythical Portrayals of Writing and Reading --$tFIVE. Writing the Disaster --$tSIX. Flagrants Délits --$tCONCLUSION: Blanchot's Postmodern Legacy --$tNOTES --$tBIBLIOGRAPHY --$tINDEX 330 $aIn this book, the first in English devoted exclusively to Maurice Blanchot, John Gregg examines the problematic interaction between the two forms of discourse, critical and fictional, that comprise this writer's hybrid oeuvre. The result is a lucid introduction to the thought of one of the most important figures on the French intellectual scene of the past half-century. Gregg organizes his discussion around the notion of transgression, which Blanchot himself took over from Georges Bataille--most palpably in his interpretation of the myth of Orpheus--as a paradigm capable of accounting for the relationships that exist in the textual economies formed by author, work, and reader. Chapters on the critical work address such issues as Blanchot's ambivalent attitude toward the speculative dialectic of Hegelianism, his thematization of literature's involvement with death, and the mythical and Biblical figures he uses to portray the acts of reading and writing. Gregg also performs extended close readings of two representative works of fiction, Le Très-Haut and L'Attente l'oubli, in an effort to trace Blanchot's evolution as a creator of narratives and to ascertain how his fiction can be seen as constituting a mise en oeuvre of the concerns he treats in his criticism. The book concludes with an assessment of Blanchot's place in the recent history of French critical theory. 606 $aDissenters in literature 615 0$aDissenters in literature. 676 $a843/.912 700 $aGregg$b John$f1954-$01464691 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780049403321 996 $aMaurice Blanchot and the literature of transgression$93674458 997 $aUNINA