University of London Press
A Critical Encounter: Bataille and Blanchot: Exploring the Literary Real
- Zoe Angeli (author)
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| Title | A Critical Encounter: Bataille and Blanchot |
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| Subtitle | Exploring the Literary Real |
| Contributor | Zoe Angeli (author) |
| Landing page | https://uolpress.co.uk/index.php/book/a-critical-encounter-bataille-and-blanchot/ |
| Publisher | University of London Press |
| Publication place | London, GB |
| Published on | 2022-12-22 |
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| ISBN | 978-0-85457-282-3 (Paperback) |
| Long abstract | <p>Few terms have been more prone and resistant to definition than the <i>literary</i> and the <i>real</i>. Bringing them together, under the contrivance of the <i>Literary Real</i>, sheds new light on the understanding of the terms <i>real</i>, <i>being</i>, <i>existence</i>, <i>the literary</i>, <i>literature</i> and <i>writing </i>and alters our thinking on them. By means of Bataille’s exposure to the violent disorder of life, and Blanchot’s passionate meditation on literature and language, <i>A</i> <i>Critical Encounter</i> addresses two questions that are constantly entwined: first, what kind of <i>real </i>is involved and disclosed in writing – and how does this differ from reality in its more traditional sense and from conventional representations of reality? Second, what is writing’s own mode of ‘being’? In what way is it particular and what are the implications of this particularity? This volume investigates the real effect the existence of literature has on our lives: how it challenges and reconfigures the way we perceive ourselves, our place in the world and our relations with others.</p> |
| Print length | 274 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
| Dimensions | 152 x 229 mm | 6" x 9" (Paperback) |
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Contributors
Zoe Angeli
(author)Zoe Angelis completed her PhD in French at the University of Cambridge in 2020. She is an English lecturer at the French lycée of Athens, Eugène Delacroix (LFHED) and has co-edited the volume: 'Stains/Les Taches: Communication and Contamination in French and Francophone Literature and Culture' (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019).