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Lyotard, Beckett, Duras, and the Postmodern Sublime

Lyotard, Beckett, Duras, and the Postmodern Sublime

Publié le par Gabriel Marcoux-Chabot (Source : Peter Lang Publishing Group website)


Andrew SLADE, Lyotard, Beckett, Duras, and the Postmodern Sublime, Oxford / Bern / Berlin / Bruxelles / Francfort-sur-le-Main /  New York / Vienne, Peter Lang (Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures), 2007, 136 p.

ISBN 978-0-8204-7862-3


SUMMARY

This daring work argues that the traumas of the twentieth century formthe backdrop of a subjectivity marked by the drive for survival, andthat sublime figurations are the aesthetic marker of that drive. Hence,the works of Jean François Lyotard, Samuel Beckett, and MargueriteDuras can be understood only with reference to the postmodernconception of the sublime. The sublime becomes a central modality forbearing witness to the terrors of history and to the possibilities ofwriting in their wake. This book will be of special value to thoseconcerned with aesthetic and literary theory, trauma theory, andpostmodernism.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Andrew Slade earned his Ph.D. in comparative literature from the StateUniversity of New York at Stony Brook after studying philosophy at theCatholic University of Leuven in Belgium. He is currently VisitingAssistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dayton in Ohio.He has written articles on the theory of tragedy, the sublime, andpostmodernism.