Literature and Event

Twenty-First Century Reformulations
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-367-77454-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 605 g

Reihe: Warwick Series in the Humanities

If "event" is a proper name we reserve for monumental changes, crises, transitions and ruptures that are by their very nature unnameable or unthinkable, then this volume is an attempt to set up an encounter between such eventhood as it comes to have a bearing on literary works and the work of reading literature.

As the event continues to provide a valuable analytical paradigm for work undertaken within the newer subdisciplines of literary and critical theory, including close reading, bio- politics, world literature, and eco- criticism, this volume makes a concerted effort to update the scholarship in this area and foreground the recent resurgence of interest in the concept. The book provides both a retrospective appraisal of the significance of events to literary studies and the literary humanities, as well as contemporary and prospective appraisals of the same, and thus would appeal scholars and instructors in the areas of literary theory, comparative literature and philosophical aesthetics alike.

Along with a specialist focus on thinkers such as Derrida, Badiou, Deleuze and Malabou, the essays in this volume read a wide corpus of literature ranging from Han Kang, Homer, Renee Gladman, Proust and Flaubert to Yoruba ideophones, Browning, Anne Carson, Jenichiro Oyabe and Ben Lerner.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mukim, Mantra

Attridge, Derek

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Transzendentalphilosophie, Kritizismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Gift of the Event
Mantra Mukim

I. Senses
Section Introduction

Event, Non-Event, and Interpretation: Catherine Malabou with Anne Carson

Stephen Darren Dougherty

"A trait for a trait": Literature and the Graphic Event

Thomas Gould

Unexceptional Events; Or, Scarcely Audible Literature

Naomi Waltham-Smith

Recherche as Event: Proust, Nietzsche, and the Aesthetic Disposition

Bryan Counter

II. Possibility/Impossibility
Section Introduction

Death as the Virtual in Howard Barker’s Evental Ontology: The Virtual, Phantasm and Impossible Desire in The Theatre of Catastrophe

Alireza Fakhrkonandeh

Althusser, Badiou, Leibniz, and the Compossibility of Events

Kurt Cavender

The Withness of the Earth: Haptic Epistemology in Climatic Times

Min Ji Choi

What happens when nothing happens?

Sarah Bouttier

III. After: History, Narrativity, Metaphor
Section Introduction

Plastic Events, Spectral Events: Literature and the ‘Real of the Phantasm,’ between Malabou and Derrida

Thomas Cleìment Mercier

On Deities: The Aesthetics of Concretion

Milind Wakankar



Leòìyìn Kété Níbi Nì SòeòleòÌ: Disaster, Event, and Ideophone

Adeleke Adeeko

The Eventful Shipwreck: Robinson Crusoe, Jenichiro Oyabe and the World Literary Map of the Drifters

Irmak Saygin

IV. Forms
Section Introduction

The Event of the Literary Work

Derek Attridge

Odysseus’s Historical Tears: Hamacher’s Literary Events and the Historicity of Abschied

Ronald Mendoza-de Jesús

The Uneventfulness and Failure of ‘Projects’ in Contemporary Literature

Alexander Scherr



Narrating the Other: On Speaking of the Origin of Time and Time of the Origin

Lucas Scott Wright

Über Autor(innen)

'Mantra Mukim is an Early Career Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies (Warwick), where his research focuses on global modernism and precariousness. His research articles have appeared or are forthcoming in Journal of Modern Literature, Interventions, Textual Practice, and Irish Studies Review.' 

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Derek Attridge

is Emeritus Professor at the University of York. His publications span such topics as the history of poetry, South African literature, James Joyce, poetic form, and literary theory. His theoretical works include Peculiar Language: Literature as Difference from the Renaissance to James Joyce (Cornell, 1988, reissued by Routledge in 2004), The Singularity of Literature (Routledge, 2004; reissued as a Routledge Classic in 2017), Reading and Responsibility: Deconstruction’s Traces (Edinburgh, 2010), and The Work of Literature (Oxford, 2015). He co-edited Post-structuralism and the Question of History (Cambridge, 1987), Theory after "Theory" (Routledge, 2011), and The Work of Reading: Literary Criticism in the 21st Century (Routledge, 2021), and edited Jacques Derrida's Acts of Literature (Routledge, 1992). He is a Fellow of the British Academy