MARKING TIME

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-420-3609-3
Verlag: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB

Buch, Englisch, Band 384, 212 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 336 g

Reihe: Faux Titre

Drawing on the work of Jacques Derrida, Marking Time presents an innovative account of literary time, in which the temporality and ontology of the literary are seen to be essentially intertwined. Individual chapters trace the stakes of this view of time for the status and ‘economy’ of the literary text across five 20th-century writers in French whose work is characterized by a fundamental and searching self-questioning: Maurice Blanchot, Samuel Beckett, Louis-René des Forêts, Pierre Klossowski, and Roger Laporte. A final chapter draws on these analyses to develop an inherently unstable figure of ‘saving time’, which has important repercussions for how we conceive of literary value.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Dekonstruktivismus, Strukturalismus, Poststrukturalismus
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Zeit: Philosophische, Psychologische, Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Preface: Questions of literature and time
Marking time with Jacques Derrida
Différance and the economy of the book
The gift and literature’s chance of a future
Performative, event, sequence
Marking time and narrative time
Time returning: Maurice Blanchot
Time of the récit
Au moment voulu
The obstinate time of testimony: Louis-René des Forêts
Still time: Samuel Beckett
Making time for each other: Pierre Klossowski
Fugal time: Roger Laporte
Saving time: an invaluable offering
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ian Maclachlan is University Lecturer and Tutorial Fellow in French at Merton College, Oxford.