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After Blanchot; literature, criticism, philosophy.


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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.  

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In the editor's introduction to this volume, Maurice Blanchot The of this article or section may be compromised by "weasel words".
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 (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.

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