The Stelliferous Fold: Toward a Virtual Law of Literature's Self-Formation

by Rodolphe Gasché

Book Overview

This book seeks to develop a novel approach to literature beyond the conventional divide between realism/formalism and history/aestheticism. It accomplishes this not only through a radical reassessment of the specificity of literature in distinction from one of its others--namely, philosophy--but above all by taking critical issue with the venerable concept of the "text" and its association with the artisanal techniques of weaving and interlacing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823234355
• ISBN13: 9780823234356
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 406 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"