| The Work of Fire Contributor(s): Blanchot, Maurice (Author), Mandell, Charlotte (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0804724326 ISBN-13: 9780804724326 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $133.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 1995 Annotation: "A signal event for literary and cultural studies in the English-speaking world. As crucial essays on individual authors, as a major work of literary theory, as an important means of access to the 1940s in French culture, as an exemplary work combining reading and theory--it is of great importance to us today."--J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine "This collection of essays and reviews from the 1940s is about the 'fiery part' of literary language that burns through the aesthetic illusions and the easy referentiality of everyday language. . . . This collection is indepensable to any attempt to understand the years between Heidegger/Benjamin and Derrida/Man."--Choice |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 809 |
| LCCN: 94032418 |
| Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics |
| Physical Information: 0.98" H x 5.9" W x 8.88" (1.27 lbs) 360 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Maurice Blanchot is arguably the key figure after Sartre in exploring the relation between literature and philosophy. Blanchot developed a distinctive, limpid form of essay writing; these essays, in form and substance, left their imprint on the work of the most influential French theorists. The writings of Barthes, Foucault, and Derrida are unimaginable without Blanchot. |