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Idylls of the Wanderer: Outside in Literature and Theory

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Description for Idylls of the Wanderer: Outside in Literature and Theory Paperback. Building upon Nietzsche's fatal confrontation "The Wanderer and His Shadow" and Jacques Derrida's initiation of the era in critical theory with the formulation "The outside is the inside," the author pursues the vicussitudes of the dimensional frontier in a range of artifacts and authors. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 17. Weight in Grams: 369.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Fordham University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
369g
Number of Pages
188
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823227709
SKU
V9780823227709
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About Henry Sussman
Henry Sussman is Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. The most recent of his many books are Idylls of the Wanderer: Outside in Literature and Theory and The Task of the Critic: Poetics, Philosophy, Religion (both Fordham).

Reviews for Idylls of the Wanderer: Outside in Literature and Theory
“A superb investigation, through careful reading of examples of what it means to be outside or to experience the outside.”
-—J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine Those who consider, for example, Joyce's Finnegans Wake an inexhaustible vein of gold (as opposed to a verbal junkyard) will find Sussman's vertiginous prose illuminating and exhilerating . . . ... Read more

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