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11%OFFRodolphe Gasche - The Stelliferous Fold. Toward a Virtual Law of Literature's Self-Formation.  - 9780823234356 - V9780823234356
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The Stelliferous Fold. Toward a Virtual Law of Literature's Self-Formation.

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Description for The Stelliferous Fold. Toward a Virtual Law of Literature's Self-Formation. paperback. Num Pages: 406 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 28. Weight in Grams: 556.

This book seeks to develop a novel approach to literature beyond the conventional divide between realism/formalism and history/aestheticism. It accomplishes this not only through a radical reassessment of the specificity of literature in distinction from one of its others—namely, philosophy—but above all by taking critical issue with the venerable concept of the “text” and its association with the artisanal techniques of weaving and interlacing. This conception of the text as an artisanal fabric is, the author holds, the unreflected presupposition of both realist, or historicist, and reflective, or “deconstructive,” criticism.
Gasché argues that “the scenes of production” within literary ... Read more

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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
406
Condition
New
Number of Pages
406
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823234356
SKU
V9780823234356
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About Rodolphe Gasche
Rodolphe Gasché is SUNY Distinguished Professor and Eugenio Donato Professor of Comparative Literature at SUNY, Buffalo. The most recent of his books are The Honor of Thinking: Critique, Theory, Philosophy and Europe, or the Infinite Task: A Study of a Philosophical Concept.

Reviews for The Stelliferous Fold. Toward a Virtual Law of Literature's Self-Formation.
"An important moment for the field of comparative literature."
-Branka Arsic University of Albany, SUNY "An important intellectual event ... Gasche develops a distinctive theory of literature or way to read literary works."
-J. Hillis Miller University of California, Irvine

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