...Christopher Langlois This article reads Samuel Beckett’s Texts for Nothing through a conceptual register it derives from the work of Maurice Blanchot and Alain Badiou: the terror of literature. Through its close reading of Texts for Nothing , it demonstrates that terror is what emerges...

..., w ithout relations or money; they must work and stick to each other till death. But England belonged to them. — Forster, Maurice 208—09 I n October 1912, the successful, 33-year-old novelist E. M. Forster sailed from England in search o f...

... have occasion to glance again: a tiny world that is generally unknown to all who are not born in it. — E. M. Forster to Florence Barger regarding Maurice (Selected Letters 1: 223) W h i l e E. M. Forster’s novels can...

... “The Cares of a Family Man” from his volume A Country Doctor (1920), and Maurice Blanchot’s novel The Most High (1948)—proposing that care offers a new point of entry into both works, even as both works undo Heideggerian care, revealing a time after Dasein. Recalling Heidegger’s designation of the cura...

..., NH : Godine . Blanchot Maurice . 1982 . “ Two Versions of the Imaginary .” In The Space of Literature , translated by Smock Ann , 254 – 64 . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press . Blanchot Maurice . 1986 . The Writing of Disaster . Translated by Smock Ann...

... novel in the British Museum, and that at his death it would be found” (71). (The novel was Maurice, which would be published in 1971.) “Lionel said this would be interesting but he wasn’t particularly concerned about it for his book, and that was it.”The conversation was over—a silence...

... in a given literary, social, and historical context. After a discussion of romanticism that provides the historical and critical context for her thesis, Wasser’s argument unfolds through a consideration of three different theoretical perspectives (Cleanth Brooks, Maurice Blanchot, and Gilles Deleuze...

... that there was not a word he published that would not have been endorsed by his maître Drumont. It would eventually fall to Maurice Clavel, the philo-Semitic Catholic gauchiste leader of the nouveaux philosophes in the 1970s to repeat Bernanos’s gesture, claiming that there was not a word that he wrote that did not bear...

... fiction like Maurice or The Life to Come as well. But there is still not much attention paid to his early short stories in the context of a queer or liberatory politics, or to their use of the fantastic as a form of code. Even the essays in Queer Forster do not address this early collection...

... understand how more radical writers might break from what Barthelme makes of postmodernism in order to explore positions best theorized by Maurice Blanchot’s work on the concept of disaster. Where an ironic aesthetic can only invert but not escape the models of mas­ tery...

...) suggests that the poet “learned” the titular word “while reading Maurice Scève’s Délie ” (111). 4 Yet Ashbery in all likelihood discovered the clepsydra in a less remote book. Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du mal includes the poem “L’Horloge,” which announces, “Le gouffre a toujours soif; la...

... Maurice Merleau-Ponty is quoted in the epigraph to her introduction, Walter never delves further into Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy regarding his concept of colors, visuality, or phenomenology. In fairness, Walter only promises to explore the intersections of “sight and reason, images and texts...

... attrition, no claim that heeding mortal obligation is indeed obligatory, or even possible. It’s no accident that necessary-impossible nodes such as these call poststructuralist ethics to mind. Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Blanchot, Michel Foucault, Julia Kristeva, Judith Butler, and others are frequent...

... and penetrating close readings of their own—and provides extended discussion of important legal writers such as Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., law professor Maurice Wormser, and pragmatist philosopher John Dewey, whose 1926 essay on corporate personhood remains a classic ( Dewey 1926...

... . Berkeley : University of California Press . Giedion Sigfried . 1977 . Space, Time, and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Halbwachs Maurice . 1992 . On Collective Memory . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . House...

.... It seems, though, that the disaster, as the starless withdrawal of the horizon of the star, would force us to abandon the notion of knowledge as aesthetics, to abandon as a ground the wondrous sight that always falls short of reaching the far-away star. As Maurice Blanchot writes...

..., Hans Pfitzner, “musical conservative and future Nazi,” Wassily Kandinsky, Maurice Maeterlinck, Arnold Schoenberg, and the musicologist Carl Dahlhaus (23). Most pages of this book, and often many sentences, attend to more artists and writers than the average critical monograph. The big names, from...

..., 1927. Luening, Otto. The Odyssey of an American Composer: The Autobiography of Otto Luening. New York: Scribner’s, 1980. Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings. Ed. Thomas Baldwin. London: Routledge, 2004. Mullin, Katherine. “‘The Essence of Vulgarity...

... says to another, “How good it is to say, ‘How are youThe other replying, “When I answer‘I am well and how are you,’ what I really mean is that I’m delighted to have a chance to say these familiar things—they bridge the lonely dis­ tances.” (52—53) Maurice Blanchot has said...

... “the postmodern condition” and “the crisis of modernity in the West” (136), hardly any attention is paid to the historical and cultural aspects of postmodernity. Here the work of David Harvey, in addition to that of Derrida, Maurice Blanchot, and the barely mentioned Jean Baudrillard and François Lyotard, would...