Work of Difference

Modernism, Romanticism, and the Production of Literary Form

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

AvAudrey Wasser

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The Work of Difference addresses a fundamental ontological question: What is literature? And at the heart of this question, it argues, is the problem of the new. How is it that new works or new forms are possible within the rule-governed orders of history, language use, or the social? How are new works in turn recognizable to already-existing institutions? Tracing the relationship between literature and the problem of newness back to a set of concerns first articulated in early German romanticism, this book goes on to mount a critique of romantic tendencies in contemporary criticism in order, ultimately, to develop an original theory of literary production. Along the way, it offers new readings of major modernist novels by Samuel Beckett, Marcel Proust, and Gertrude Stein.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-03-01
Mått152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt318 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor216
FörlagFordham University Press
ISBN9780823270064

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Introduction 1 1. Form and Fragmentation: Romantic Legacies 2. The Book of the World: Form and Intent in New Criticism, Revisited 3. Tyranny of the Possible: Blanchot 4. A Genesis of the New: Deleuze 5. From Figure to Fissure: Self-Correction in Beckett's Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable 6. Hyperbole In Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu 7. "How Anything Can Be Different from What It Is": Tautology in Stein's The Making of Americans Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index

"Lucid and beautifully written, The Work of Difference gives us an ontology of literature that is at once theoretical and practical. Audrey Wasser not only teaches us what literature can be but also what it can do and how it works in its most groundbreaking operations. Combining profound new readings of major modernist writers (Proust, Beckett, Stein) with a sophisticated philosophical understanding of Deleuze, The Work of Difference develops an innovative theory of literary production. Equally at home in conceptual thinking and rhetorical close reading, Wasser is an important new critic to reckon with." -- -Martin Hagglund Yale University