292 Pages
by Routledge

The work of the French literary review, intellectual grouping and publishing team Tel Quel had a profound impact on the formation of literary and cultural debate in the 1960s and 70s. Its legacy has had enormous influence on the parameters of such debate today. From its beginning in 1960 to its closure in 1982, it published some of the earliest work of Jacques Derrida, Julia Kristeva, Michel... Read more
Acknowledgements, Introduction, Chronological history of Tel Quel, 1. Science, Tel Quel, 'Division of the Assembly', J. Kristeva, 'Towards a Semiology of Paragrams', J-J. Goux, 'Marx and the Inscription of Work', J-L. Baudry, 'Freud and Literary Creation', 2. Literature, Michel Foucault, 'Distance, Aspect, Origin', M. Pleynet, 'The Readability of Sade', P. Sollers, 'The Bataille Act', J. Kristeva, 'The Subject in Process', 3. M. Devade, 'Chromatic Painting', M. Pleynet, 'Heavenly Glory'/'Thetic Madness', G. Scarpetta, 'The American Body', P. Sollers, 'Paradis' (excerpt), Dissemination, Roland Barthes, 'Responses', Bibliography, Index.

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Patrick French, Roland-Francois Lack

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