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Blanchot, Maurice - mōrēsˈ bläNshōˈ, 1907–2003, French novelist and literary critic. One of the first intellectuals in France to be interested in questions of language and meaning, he was an important influence on French postmodernist thought. In his critical works, notably L'Espace littéraire (1955, tr. 1982), Blanchot propounds the theory


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    Levinas, Blanchot, Jabes: Figures of Estrangement » Read Now

    by Gary D. Mole. 210 pgs.

    "Philosopher Levinas, novelist and essayist Blanchot, poet Jabes, all three constitute the rich intellectual soil from which more visible thinkers such as Derrida and Foucault have emerged.... A user-friendly essay on a very difficult subject.... All students of literary theory will want to have...
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    The Space of Literature » Read Now

    by Maurice Blanchot, Ann Smock. 280 pgs.

    ...The Space of Literature Maurice Blanchot Translated, with an Introduction...Cataloging in Publication Data Blanchot, Maurice. The space of literature...never stopped...
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    "Ce Tourment Qui Est Un Rire": Maurice Blanchot with Samuel Beckett, in The Romanic Review » Read Now

    by Linda Jones Jenkins. 17 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Ce tourment qui est un rire": Maurice Blanchot with Samuel Beckett. by...juin 1966. 524-526. (4.) Blanchot, Maurice. Celui qui ne maccompagnait...Gallimard, 1953. 10. (5.)...
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    The Shame of Memory: Blanchot's Self-Dispossession in Ishiguro's 'A Pale View of Hills', in CLIO » Read Now

    by Cynthia F. Wong. 19 pgs.

    ...reveal what literary theorist Maurice Blanchot calls their "torment of language...Denver Denver, Colorado 1. Maurice Blanchot, "From Dread to Language." Gaze...Station...
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    The Novelist as Philosopher: Studies in French Fiction, 1935-1960 (includes a chapter on Maurice Blanchot) » Read Now

    by John Cruickshank. 262 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Esslin 128 MAURICE BLANCHOT by Geoffrey Hartman 147 SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR by Maurice Cranston 166...different standpoint, however, Maurice Blanchot carries dehumanization...
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    Maternal Pasts, Feminist Futures: Nostalgia, Ethics, and the Question of Difference (includes "Blanchot's Mother") » Read Now

    by Lynne Huffer. 204 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    This book examines the relations among nostalgia, gender, and foundational philosophies through a critique of the lost mother as a ground for thinking about sexual difference. More specifically, the author critiques the nostalgic tendencies of feminist theory, arguing that an emancipatory system of...
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    History and Disaster: Witness, Trauma, and the Problem of Writing the Holocaust, in CLIO » Read Now

    by Michael Bernard-Donals. 26 pgs.

    ...dissolution, we can glimpse what Maurice Blanchot called the disaster of writing...in redemptive history is what Maurice Blanchot calls "the disaster," and it...the world...
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    The French Critic, 1549-1967 (includes information on Maurice Blanchot in "Primacy of the Text: Thematic Criticism") » Read Now

    by Wallace Fowlie. 186 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...been collected in two volumes under the title Le Theatre de Maurice Boissard . It is a moody, irritable, and irritating kind of...His criticism is almost a manifesto. His...
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    Maurice Blanchot and the Literature of Transgression » Read Now

    by John Gregg. 241 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    In this book, the first in English devoted exclusively to Maurice Blanchot, John Gregg examines the problematic interaction between the two forms of discourse, critical and fictional, that comprise this writer's hybrid oeuvre. The result is a lucid introduction to the thought of one of the most...

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