Andre Bleikasten
Biographic Data
| ID | 5701628 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andre Bleikasten |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andre |
| FAMILY NAME | Bleikasten |
| SIGNATURE | BLEIKASTEN A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Ink of Melancholy
Y a-t-il une critique américaine
Since the demise of the New Criticism in the sixties, literary theory has become a central and highly controversial issue in the American academy. European and especially French thinkers, from Derrida to Kristeva, have played a major part in the debates that have been raging over the function and meaning of literature, and American criticism has certainly gained from their questioning of traditional assumptions. It remains to be seen, however, wh…
Moby-Dick et la question du livre
Moby-Dick and the Question of the Book In Moby-Dick, Melville pursued the old Western dream, revived in the 19th century by German Romanticism, of the liber mundi, the unique and absolute Book that would encompass the totality of knowledge. The world's text, however, can no longer be authenticated by God's signature, as it was in the Middle Ages. Its totality has broken into fragments ; the new Bible is nothing more than « the draught of a draugh…
The Ink of Melancholy
The Ink of Melancholy
The period from the late 1920s to the early 1940s was in Faulkner's career one of prodigious fertility, and the creative outburst on which it opens-from The Sound and the Fury (1929) through As I Lay Dying (1930) and Sanctuary (1931) to Light in August (1932)-touches indeed on the miraculous. It is the four children of this miracle that André Bleikasten re-examines and re-evaluates in his substantial new book on Faulkner. But rather than approach…
Roman vrai, vrai roman ou l’indestructible récit
Whether historical or literary, narrative discourse has lost a good deal of its credit. Out of concern with conceptual rigor, today's most innovative historians attempt to dispense with it, and the questioning of narrative has perhaps been even more radical with modern and postmodern writers. Yet neither historians nor novelists have given up narrating and probably could not do so without forfeiting their specificity. Far from having exhausted it…
The Most Splendid Failure
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The Most Splendid Failure
Roman vrai, vrai roman ou l’indestructible récit
Whether historical or literary, narrative discourse has lost a good deal of its credit. Out of concern with conceptual rigor, today's most innovative historians attempt to dispense with it, and the questioning of narrative has perhaps been even more radical with modern and postmodern writers. Yet neither historians nor novelists have given up narrating and probably could not do so without forfeiting their specificity. Far from having exhausted it…
The Ink of Melancholy
The period from the late 1920s to the early 1940s was in Faulkner's career one of prodigious fertility, and the creative outburst on which it opens-from The Sound and the Fury (1929) through As I Lay Dying (1930) and Sanctuary (1931) to Light in August (1932)-touches indeed on the miraculous. It is the four children of this miracle that André Bleikasten re-examines and re-evaluates in his substantial new book on Faulkner. But rather than approach…
Moby-Dick et la question du livre
Moby-Dick and the Question of the Book In Moby-Dick, Melville pursued the old Western dream, revived in the 19th century by German Romanticism, of the liber mundi, the unique and absolute Book that would encompass the totality of knowledge. The world's text, however, can no longer be authenticated by God's signature, as it was in the Middle Ages. Its totality has broken into fragments ; the new Bible is nothing more than « the draught of a draugh…
The Ink of Melancholy
Y a-t-il une critique américaine
Since the demise of the New Criticism in the sixties, literary theory has become a central and highly controversial issue in the American academy. European and especially French thinkers, from Derrida to Kristeva, have played a major part in the debates that have been raging over the function and meaning of literature, and American criticism has certainly gained from their questioning of traditional assumptions. It remains to be seen, however, wh…
The Ink of Melancholy
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