The Work of Difference: Modernism, Romanticism, and the Production of Literary Form 0823270076, 9780823270071

The Work of Difference addresses a fundamental ontological question: What is literature? And at the heart of this questi

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Table of contents :
Contents
Introduction
1. Form and Fragmentation: Romantic Legacies
2. The Book of the World: Form and Intent
in New Criticism, Revisited
3. Tyranny of the Possible: Blanchot
4. A Genesis of the New: Deleuze
5. From Figure to Fissure: Self-Correction in Beckett’s
Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable
6. Hyperbole in Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu
7. “How Anything Can Be Different from What It Is”:
Tautology in Stein’s The Making of Americans
Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments

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