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If "event" is a proper name we reserve for monumental changes, crises, transitions and ruptures that are by their very nature unnameable or unthinkable, then this volume is an attempt to set up an encounter between such eventhood as it comes to have a bearing on literary works and the work of reading literature.
As the event continues to provide a valuable analytical paradigm for work undertaken within the newer subdisciplines of literary and critical theory, including close reading, bio- politics, world literature, and eco- criticism, this volume makes a concerted effort to update the scholarship in this area and foreground the recent resurgence of interest in the concept. The book provides both a retrospective appraisal of the significance of events to literary studies and the literary humanities, as well as contemporary and prospective appraisals of the same, and thus would appeal scholars and instructors in the areas of literary theory, comparative literature and philosophical aesthetics alike.
Along with a specialist focus on thinkers such as Derrida, Badiou, Deleuze and Malabou, the essays in this volume read a wide corpus of literature ranging from Han Kang, Homer, Renee Gladman, Proust and Flaubert to Yoruba ideophones, Browning, Anne Carson, Jenichiro Oyabe and Ben Lerner.
Contents
'From, Event'
MANTRA MUKIM
SECTION I
Senses
1 Plasticity and the Event of Literature: Reading Catherine Malabou with Anne Carson
STEPHEN DOUGHERTY
2 Margin, Letter, and Sentence: The Graphic Event
THOMAS GOULD
3 Unexceptional Events; Or, Cixous's Scarcely Audible Literature
NAOMI WALTHAM- SMITH
4 'Peut- e tre aurais- je d u penser': Research and Event in Proust
BRYAN COUNTER
SECTION II
Possibility/ Impossibility
5 Poetics of the Event or Evental Poetics? Writing as Becoming Imperceptible in Howard Barker's Hurts Given and Received
ALIREZA FAKHRKONANDEH
6 Literature, Event, and Formal Compossibility
KURT CAVENDER
7 The Withness of the Earth: Haptic Epistemology in Climatic Times
MIN JI CHOI
8 What Happens When Nothing Happens? Near- and Micro- Events in Contemporary Poetry
SARAH BOUTTIER
SECTION III
After: History, Narrative, Form
9 Plastic Events, Spectral Events: Literature and the "Real of the Phantasm," Between Malabou and Derrida
THOMAS CLÉMENT MERCIER
10 On Deities: The Aesthetics of Concretion
MILIND WAKANKAR
11 Lẹyìn Kété Níbi N Sẹlẹ: Disaster, Event, and Ideophone
ADÉLÉKÈ ADÉẸKỌ
12 The Eventful Shipwreck: Robinson Crusoe, Jenichiro Oyabe, and the World Literary Map of the Drifters
IRMAK SAYGIN
SECTION IV
Forms
13 The Event of the Literary Work
DEREK ATTRIDGE
14 History, Tearing: Hamacher's Literary Events
RONALD MENDOZA- DE JESÚS
15 Serendipitous Events: Failures and Transformations of Projects in Contemporary Anglophone Literature
ALEXANDER SCHERR
16 Narrating the Other: On Speaking of the Origin of Time and the Time of the Origin
LUCAS SCOTT WRIGHT
