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Singularities - Extremes of Theory in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover, New)
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Singularities - Extremes of Theory in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover, New)
Series: Literature, Culture, Theory
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The possibility of literary theory has been repeatedly put at risk
by the apparently simple question 'What is a literary text?'
Throughout the twentieth century the epistemological status of
literature, the problem of language's claim to true representation,
has challenged our received notions of ontology and being. Thus the
question 'What is literature?' has frequently sponsored highly
philosophical interrogations of our inherited ways of comprehending
the external world. In Singularities, Thomas Pepper addresses the
relationship between textuality, value, and critical difficulty. In
a rich sequence of nuanced close readings of especially demanding
philosophical and literary texts, Singularities addresses key
moments in Adorno, Blanchot, de Man, Derrida, Foucault, Althusser,
Levinas and Celan. By offering a critique of the very process of
thematic reading, this book addresses the whole question of truth
and being, language and value, in a series of readings of sustained
critical power.
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