After Blanchot; literature, criticism, philosophy.0874139465 After Blanchot; literature, criticism, philosophy. Ed. by Leslie Hill et al. Univ. of Delaware Press 2005 277 pages $30.00 Paperback Monash Romance studies Romance studies is an umbrella academic discipline that covers the study of the languages, literatures, and cultures of areas that speak a Romance language. Romance studies departments usually include the study of Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese. PQ2603 In the editor's introduction to this volume, Maurice Blanchot You can help Wikipedia by removing weasel words. (1907-2003) is described as "a writer whose work breaks new ground in its account of the philosophical implications of the thing called literature (if it may be thought to exist at all)." Hill's (French studies, U. of Warwick) overview of Blanchot's thought and legacy is followed by 15 contributions from European, Australian, and American scholars. These explore Blanchot's work in relation to such concepts as the movements of the neuter neu·ter adj. 1. Having undeveloped or imperfectly developed sexual organs. 2. Sexually undeveloped. n. A castrated animal. v. To castrate or spay. neuter 1. , the inertia inertia (ĭnûr`shə), in physics, the resistance of a body to any alteration in its state of motion, i.e., the resistance of a body at rest to being set in motion or of a body in motion to any change of speed or change in direction of of being, and the literature of indistinction. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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