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Idylls of the Wanderer : Outside in Literature and Theory /

This book is an extended inquiry into the dimension of exteriority constructed by philosophical systems and literary works. Literature has, since its inception, depended on a rogue's gallery of outsiders-the more outlandish the better, with human attributes optional-as the impetus to its events...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Sussman, Henry (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • One. Idylls of the Wanderer
  • Two. On the Butcher Block: A Panorama of Social Marking
  • Three. Exiles in Writing: Joyce and Benjamin
  • Four. James Baldwin's Exile: Theory, Circumstance, and the Real of Language
  • Five. William Faulkner and the Romance of the American Drifter
  • Six. The Afterlife of Judaism: The Zohar, Benjamin, Miller
  • Seven. Modernist Night: Distortion, Regression, and Oblivion in the Fiction of Bruno Schulz
  • Eight. Incarcerated in Amerika: Literature Addresses the Political, with the Help of Ernesto Laclau
  • Notes
  • Index