Ways of re-thinking literature
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Ways of re-thinking literature
Routledge, 2018
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 fields, in France, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
Topics covered include an assessment of the role of literary narratives in contemporary writing, new considerations on the novel, a redefinition of the "poetic" factor in poetry and life, and a discussion of how literature engages with contemporary forms of individuality.
Under the auspices of literary luminaries Helene Cixous and the late John Ashbery, these new pieces of writing bring to light contributions by innovative and well-established authors from the English-speaking sphere, as well as never-before translated prominent new voices in French theory.
Featuring original work from some of today's most influential authors, Ways of Re-Thinking Literature is an indispensable tool for anybody interested in the future and possibilities of literature as an endeavor for life, thought, and creativity.
With special cover artwork by Rita Ackermann, the volume includes contributions from Emily Apter, Philippe Artieres, John Ashbery, Paul Audi, Dodie Bellamy, Tom Bishop, Helene Cixous, Laurent Dubreuil, Tristan Garcia, Stathis Gourgouris, Donatien Grau, Boris Groys, Shelley Jackson, Wayne Koestenbaum, Camille Laurens, Vanessa Place, Mael Renouard, Peter Schjeldahl, Adam Thirlwell, and Camille de Toledo.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Tom Bishop and Donatien Grau
Prelude: Golden Discount
John Ashbery
Part I: Literary Narratives
The Disappearing Avant-Garde
Tom Bishop
The Critical Life: Rethinking Biography in an Experimental Mode
Emily Apter
What Literature Can Do
Philippe Artieres
Some Notes Towards a Literary Conception of Literature
Donatien Grau
Part II: Literature and the Novel
The Installation as Novel
Boris Groys
History of New Novels
Adam Thirlwell
What becomes of the novel when the gods are coming back
Tristan Garcia
Part III: Literature and the Poetic
The Varieties of Literary Experience
Peter Schjeldahl
Intellection, Cognition, Contradiction
Laurent Dubreuil
Heiner Muller's Lyric Loneliness and the Mythical Body
Stathis Gourgouris
The Route of the Impossible
Paul Audi
Part IV: A New Subjectivity
Re-thinking, re-feeling literature
Camille Laurens
Hoarding as Ecriture
Dodie Bellamy
Corpse Pose
Wayne Koestenbaum
The Shelley Jackson Vocational School for Ghost Speakers and Hearing-Mouth Children
Shelley Jackson
Some Fragments
Mael Renouard
Fictional Habitation
Camille de Toledo
Act two: Why I am a destiny
Vanessa Place
Conclusion: Ay yay! The Cry of Literature
Helene Cixous
Index
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