Literary Debate: Texts and Contexts: Postwar French Thought - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1565842898 ISBN 13: 9781565842892

Publisher: The New Press, 2000

Synopsis

In Literary Debate, the second volume in The New Press’s Postwar French Thought Series, editors Denis Hollier and Jeffrey Mehlman present a selection of texts, many available in English for the first time, that together offer an illuminating and provocative overview of the last half-century of French literary criticism.

Combining examination of literature as an institution and in historical context with path breaking interpretations of writing by such authors as Stephan Mallarmé and Sigmund Freud, Literary Debate presents the seminal work of figures such as Roland Barthes, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Julia Kristeva, and Jean’Paul Sartre. These selections represent one of the most fertile periods the field has known. Including original essays by its editors, this volume brings together the important threads of one of the most influential movements in Western intellectual history.

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Review:

"[Literary Debate] . . . will remain, for a long time, an indispensable tool to those interested in the modern avatars of that indefinable thing, literature." —Le Monde des Livres

"An extremely thoughtful and intellectually provocative volume. . . . A most dynamic collection of texts that look at the various debates surrounding the idea of literature in France in such a way that transcends the stereotypical readings of our time." —Lawrence D. Kritzman, Dartmouth College

About the Author:

Denis Hollier is Professor of French literature at New York University and the editor of A New History of French Literature. His most recent book is Absent Without Leave.

Jeffrey Mehlman is University Professor at Boston University and the author, most recently, of Émigré New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: The New Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1565842898
• ISBN 13: 9781565842892
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 499
• Editor: Hollier Denis, Mehlman Jeffrey