What is an event? From a philosophical perspective, events are irregular occurrences-moments of change and interruption-categorized by human perception, language, and thought. While philosophers have pored over the subject of events extensively in recent years, The Event: Literature and Theory seeks to ground it: What is literature's approach to the event? How does literature produce and give testimony to events? Ilai Rowner's study not only revisits some of the most important thinkers of our time, including Maurice Blanchot, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, and Martin Heidegger, it also develops a critical approach to literature that questions the meaning of the literary event through examinations of literary works by Marcel Proust, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, and T. S. Eliot. Rowner offers a new method of thinking about the particular characteristics of the event within literary works and defines the creative value of literature as the aspiration toward the un-happening within the happening. In this study the experience of literature-as an act of both writing and reading-becomes the struggle to capture the excessive movement of the event while also revealing the creative energy within that work of literature.
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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN-13
9780803245853
eBay Product ID (ePID)
209304436
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Event: Literature and Theory
Author
Ilai Rowner
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literature, Popular Philosophy
Publication Year
2015
Number of Pages
328 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
216mm
Item Width
140mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Ilai Rowner
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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