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1st Edition

Ways of Re-Thinking Literature

Edited By Tom Bishop, Donatien Grau Copyright 2018
238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge
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Ways of Re-Thinking Literature creates a unique platform where leading literary thinkers and practitioners provide a multiplicity of views into what literature is today. The texts gathered in this extraordinary collection range from philosophy to poetry, to theater, to cognitive sciences, to art criticism, to fiction, and their authors rank amongst the most significant figures in their... Read more

Introduction

Tom Bishop and Donatien Grau

Prelude: Golden Discount

John Ashbery

Part I: Literary Narratives

  1. The Disappearing Avant-Garde

    2. Tom Bishop

  2. The Critical Life: Rethinking Biography in an Experimental Mode

    3. Emily Apter

  3. What Literature Can Do

    4. Philippe Artières

  4. Some Notes Towards a Literary Conception of Literature

    5. Donatien Grau

    Part II: Literature and the Novel

  5. The Installation as Novel

    6. Boris Groys

  6. History of New Novels

    7. Adam Thirlwell

  7. What becomes of the novel when the gods are coming back

    8. Tristan Garcia

    Part III: Literature and the Poetic

  8. The Varieties of Literary Experience

    9. Peter Schjeldahl

  9. Intellection, Cognition, Contradiction

    10. Laurent Dubreuil

  10. Heiner Müller’s Lyric Loneliness and the Mythical Body

    11. Stathis Gourgouris

  11. The Route of the Impossible

    12. Paul Audi

    Part IV: A New Subjectivity

  12. Re-thinking, re-feeling literature

    13. Camille Laurens

  13. Hoarding as Écriture

    14. Dodie Bellamy

  14. Corpse Pose

    15. Wayne Koestenbaum

  15. The Shelley Jackson Vocational School for Ghost Speakers and Hearing-Mouth Children

    16. Shelley Jackson

  16. Some Fragments

    17. Maël Renouard

  17. Fictional Habitation

    18. Camille de Toledo

  18. Act two: Why I am a destiny

Vanessa Place

Conclusion: Ay yay! The Cry of Literature

Hélène Cixous

Index

Biography

Tom Bishop is the Florence Lacaze Gould Professor of French, Professor of French and Comparative Literature at New York University (NYU), USA. For fifty years, he served as Chair of the department of French at NYU and Director of the Center for French Civilization and Culture. Amongst his many publications are: From the Left Bank: Reflections on the Modern French Theater and Novel (1997) and Pirandello and the French Theater (1960, 1970).

Donatien Grau is a Guest Curator at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA. He holds a doctorat in French and comparative literature from the Sorbonne, France, and a DPhil from the University of Oxford, UK. He was twice a Guest Resarch Researcher at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles; a Florence Gould Lecturer, New York University; a Special Guest of French Studies, Cornell University; a Visiting Scholar, Stevanonich Institute for the Formation of Knowledge, University of Chicago; a teaching fellow, Sorbonne and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France.

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