The Stelliferous Fold. Toward a Virtual Law of Literature's Self-Formation.
Rodolphe Gasche
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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-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