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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Maurice Blanchot"”.
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Community Unclaimed: Plurality and the Problem of Sovereignty in Bataille, Nancy, and Blanchot
… Georges Bataille, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Maurice Blanchot. Taken together, and starting with Bataille’s prewar writings and communitarian activism in the 1930s, the exchange between them now spans nearly a century. Georges Bataille’s importance as a political thinker and writer was brought …
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Whalelight: A Sounding
… St. Augustine of Hippo, Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, and Plato to articulate a poetics relevant to the novel—and to the weird. The poetics suggests that the experience of weirdness is a deformation of psychological, emotional, and conceptual givens, and as such may be either a danger …
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La littérature française du vingtième siècle entre la mémoire et l’oubli: Proust, Beckett, Perec, et Blanchot; Twentieth Century French Literature between memory and forgetting: Proust, Beckett, Perec, and Blanchot
… impossible for Samuel Beckett, George Perec, and Maurice Blanchot, who encounter the disappearance of memory preserved in the narrative space. Not only in the face of the spatialization of memory in the increasing development of mass media, which Walter Benjamin criticizes, but also in the face of …
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Critical encounters: Bataille, Blanchot and the literary real
… and interlinking) of Georges Bataille and Maurice Blanchot – as generated by the comparative angle that structures the thesis. The literary real addresses both the question of what kind of ‘real’ is involved and disclosed in writing (and how that might differ from reality in its more …
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Urban ideograms
… the writings of Sigmund Freud, Sandor Ferenczi, Maurice Blanchot, Cathy Caruth, and the balletic practice of William Forsythe and their commentaries.
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HENRY JAMES AND ROMANTIC REVISIONISM: THE QUEST FOR THE MAN OF IMAGINATION IN THE LATE WORK
… and Paul de Man) as well as French theory (e.g. Maurice Blanchot, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida) and other traditions (e.g. Kenneth Burke, R.P. Blackmur, and Lionel Trilling) to challenge new instrumentalizing scholarly methodologies that aim to overcome the ironies of critical vision. I …
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“Tawny Grammar”: Anne Simpson’s Exploration of the Other
… of Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, and Maurice Blanchot, Simpson works within the belief that language is inherently selffocused, and so needs to be subverted. Since poetry exists in language, in order to overcome its self-centred nature Simpson also relies on form and movement to call …
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(In)Visible
… Joy Harjo, Rainer Maria Rilke, Paul Celan, Maurice Blanchot, Giorgio Agamben, Fanny Howe, Adonis, Barbara Guest, H.D., and others. The essay engages poetry as a means of spiraling around the invisible, limitless center, and proposes, as a poetic device that enables this spiraling, the …
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Derrida and a Theory of Irony: Parabasis and Parataxis
… (non)propositional: Plato, Friedrich Schlegel, Maurice Blanchot, Paul de Man, Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida. While focusing on the irony performed in the texts of Jacques Derrida, and using his engagements with these thinkers as a frame, this is not a theory of “Derridean” irony, but an …
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Le Regard Tactile chez Jean Cocteau: Une analyse esthétique de la trilogie orphique.
… term, which finds its roots in the work of Maurice Blanchot, particularly in the problems outlined in the section entitled L'image of his influential essay L'espace Littéraire. Blanchot's observations on poetic creation, the Orphic gaze and visual fascination are also analysed in this work. …
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Towards an ethics of voice as hospitable space
… first formalised by writer and philosopher Maurice Blanchot, as a disserninative and exegetical strategy. The first invitation, One Note, used the medium of sound installation, voice and recording, to develop a method of performance documentation based upon context-specific face-to-face …
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Lignes, an intellectual revue: twenty-five years of politics, philosophy, art and literature
… of thinkers, notably Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot and Dionys Mascolo, and the thesis concludes by examining the potential role ‘French Theory’ could still have in France. Furthermore, as revues provide a unique nexus of intellectual, cultural, social and political concerns, the …
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Literature's Blind Spot: Event and Remainder in Tom McCarthy's Fiction
… of the event is read alongside thinkers such as Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Derrida. Remainder, for instance, enacts Blanchot's idea of the disaster, as well as Derridean concepts such as the trace, and the analysis of Satin Island draws on the aesthetics of Blanchot and Stéphane Mallarmé. …
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Pedem referens: art historical memory and the analogue in the work of Tacita Dean, Jeremy Millar and Lucy Skaer
This thesis explores the new art historical turn in contemporary art through close engagement with three British artworks. These are Tacita Dean’s, Section Cinema (Homage to Marcel Broodthaers), 2002, Jeremy Millar’s, The Man Who Looked Back, 2010, and Lucy Skaer’s, Leonora, 2006. Each of these …
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A Sceptical Aesthetics of Existence: The Case of Michel Foucault
… which Foucault's thought has emerged (Heidegger, Blanchot, and Nietzsche). The third chapter discusses representative examples of different periods of Foucault's thought -such as the "Introduction" to Binswanger's "Traum und Existenz" (1954), Histoire de la folie (1961), and Histoire de la …