Ways of Re-Thinking Literature is a collection of inspiring, thoughtful, creative and critical essays by leading scholars and writers, including Helene Cixous. It examines the connections and dialogue between the critical and creative in literary studies, showing that the interaction between these two spheres provide moments of extraordinary creativity in literary as well as theoretical terms.
Ways of Re-Thinking Literature is a collection of inspiring, thoughtful, creative and critical essays by leading scholars and writers, including Helene Cixous. It examines the connections and dialogue between the critical and creative in literary studies, showing that the interaction between these two spheres provide moments of extraordinary creativity in literary as well as theoretical terms.
Tom Bishop is the Florence Lacaze Gould Professor of French, Professor of French and Comparative Literature at New York University (NYU), USA. For fifty years, he served as Chair of the department of French at NYU and Director of the Center for French Civilization and Culture. Amongst his many publications are: From the Left Bank: Reflections on the Modern French Theater and Novel (1997) and Pirandello and the French Theater (1960, 1970). Donatien Grau is a Guest Curator at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA. He holds a doctorat in French and comparative literature from the Sorbonne, France, and a DPhil from the University of Oxford, UK. He was twice a Guest Resarch Researcher at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles; a Florence Gould Lecturer, New York University; a Special Guest of French Studies, Cornell University; a Visiting Scholar, Stevanonich Institute for the Formation of Knowledge, University of Chicago; a teaching fellow, Sorbonne and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France.
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Introduction Tom Bishop and Donatien Grau Prelude: Golden Discount John Ashbery Part I: Literary Narratives 1. The Disappearing Avant-Garde Tom Bishop 2. The Critical Life: Rethinking Biography in an Experimental Mode Emily Apter 3. What Literature Can Do Philippe Artières 4. Some Notes Towards a Literary Conception of Literature Donatien Grau Part II: Literature and the Novel 5. The Installation as Novel Boris Groys 6. History of New Novels Adam Thirlwell 7. What becomes of the novel when the gods are coming back Tristan Garcia Part III: Literature and the Poetic 8. The Varieties of Literary Experience Peter Schjeldahl 9. Intellection, Cognition, Contradiction Laurent Dubreuil 10. Heiner Müller's Lyric Loneliness and the Mythical Body Stathis Gourgouris 11. The Route of the Impossible Paul Audi Part IV: A New Subjectivity 12. Re-thinking, re-feeling literature Camille Laurens 13. Hoarding as Écriture Dodie Bellamy 14. Corpse Pose Wayne Koestenbaum 15. The Shelley Jackson Vocational School for Ghost Speakers and Hearing-Mouth Children Shelley Jackson 16. Some Fragments Maël Renouard 17. Fictional Habitation Camille de Toledo 18. Act two: Why I am a destiny Vanessa Place Conclusion: Ay yay! The Cry of Literature Hélène Cixous Index
Introduction Tom Bishop and Donatien Grau Prelude: Golden Discount John Ashbery Part I: Literary Narratives 1. The Disappearing Avant-Garde Tom Bishop 2. The Critical Life: Rethinking Biography in an Experimental Mode Emily Apter 3. What Literature Can Do Philippe Artières 4. Some Notes Towards a Literary Conception of Literature Donatien Grau Part II: Literature and the Novel 5. The Installation as Novel Boris Groys 6. History of New Novels Adam Thirlwell 7. What becomes of the novel when the gods are coming back Tristan Garcia Part III: Literature and the Poetic 8. The Varieties of Literary Experience Peter Schjeldahl 9. Intellection, Cognition, Contradiction Laurent Dubreuil 10. Heiner Müller's Lyric Loneliness and the Mythical Body Stathis Gourgouris 11. The Route of the Impossible Paul Audi Part IV: A New Subjectivity 12. Re-thinking, re-feeling literature Camille Laurens 13. Hoarding as Écriture Dodie Bellamy 14. Corpse Pose Wayne Koestenbaum 15. The Shelley Jackson Vocational School for Ghost Speakers and Hearing-Mouth Children Shelley Jackson 16. Some Fragments Maël Renouard 17. Fictional Habitation Camille de Toledo 18. Act two: Why I am a destiny Vanessa Place Conclusion: Ay yay! The Cry of Literature Hélène Cixous Index
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