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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Christian KlöcknerPublisher: Peter Lang AG Imprint: Peter Lang AG Edition: New edition Volume: 10 Dimensions: Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 0.430kg ISBN: 9783631714102ISBN 10: 3631714106 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 22 December 2016 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print ![]() This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsTerrorism in postmodern and neorealist American fiction - Maurice Blanchot - Paul Auster's debt to Blanchot - Aesthetics of rupture and transgression - Relationship of writing, terror, freedom, and death - Power of literature - Alterity - Emmanuel Levinas - The sublime - Terrorism as spectacle in global consumer cultureReviewsIn enlisting Blanchot's thinking in order to understand better the relation between literature and violence, Christian Kloeckner does not aim, however, to examine the thematic treatment of terrorism in selected novels as such, but rather `to analyse [them] for the ways in which they relate terrorism to the act of writing and the question of literature's power' (p. 19). To this end, he offers an often astute, well-informed analysis of Auster's early prose and poetry, and tracks with illuminating persistence the trace left on Auster by his encounter with Blanchot. (Leslie Hill, French Studies Volume 72, Issue 1 2018) «In enlisting Blanchot’s thinking in order to understand better the relation between literature and violence, Christian Kloeckner does not aim, however, to examine the thematic treatment of terrorism in selected novels as such, but rather ‘to analyse [them] for the ways in which they relate terrorism to the act of writing and the question of literature’s power’ (p. 19). To this end, he offers an often astute, well-informed analysis of Auster’s early prose and poetry, and tracks with illuminating persistence the trace left on Auster by his encounter with Blanchot.» (Leslie Hill, French Studies Volume 72, Issue 1 2018) Author InformationChristian Kloeckner teaches North American literature and culture at the University of Bonn. His research interests include literature and political violence, (post-)modernist poetry, memorial culture, discourses of race and class, and the intersections of financialization, debt, and nostalgia in U.S. culture. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |