Title
Idylls of the Wanderer : Outside in Literature and Theory / Henry Sussman.
ISBN
9780823291786
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
Copyright
©2007
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (188 p.)
Item Number
10.1515/9780823291786 doi
Summary
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 and the motive for its developments. Philosophers have also vacillated between safeguarding the purity and consistency of their systematic projects and embracing contamination by alien and intransigent elements. The unsettling encounter between interiority and exteriority is a philosophical and literary sideshow not nearly as frivolous as it might seem. Building upon Nietzsche's fatal confrontation "The Wanderer and His Shadow" and Jacques Derrida's initiation of the current era in critical theory with the formulation "The outside is the inside," the author pursues the vicussitudes of the dimensional frontier in a wide range of artifacts and authors. Among these are James Joyce, Walter Benjamin, James Baldwin, and William Faulkner. A welcome is further extended to the peculiar sublime introduced in the Zohar and in the texts of Georg Büchner, Franz Kafka, Bruno Schulz, and Paul Celan.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
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Source of Description
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Available in Other Form
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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
