Lyotard, Beckett, Duras, and the Postmodern Sublime

Author:   Andrew Slade ,  Michael G Paulson ,  Tamara Alvarez-Detrell
Publisher:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Volume:   146
ISBN:  

9780820478623


Pages:   136
Publication Date:   30 March 2007
Format:   Hardback
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Lyotard, Beckett, Duras, and the Postmodern Sublime


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This daring work argues that the traumas of the twentieth century form the backdrop of a subjectivity marked by the drive for survival, and that sublime figurations are the aesthetic marker of that drive. Hence, the works of Jean Francois Lyotard, Samuel Beckett, and Marguerite Duras can be understood only with reference to the postmodern conception of the sublime. The sublime becomes a central modality for bearing witness to the terrors of history and to the possibilities of writing in their wake. This book will be of special value to those concerned with aesthetic and literary theory, trauma theory, and postmodernism.

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Author:   Andrew Slade ,  Michael G Paulson ,  Tamara Alvarez-Detrell
Publisher:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Volume:   146
Weight:   0.410kg
ISBN:  

9780820478623


ISBN 10:   0820478628
Pages:   136
Publication Date:   30 March 2007
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
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The Author: Andrew Slade earned his Ph.D. in comparative literature from the State University of New York at Stony Brook after studying philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. He is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dayton in Ohio. He has written articles on the theory of tragedy, the sublime, and postmodernism.

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