Geopoetics : [electronic resource] the politics of mimesis in poststructuralist French poetry and theory / Joan Brandt.
By: Brandt, Joan Elizabeth.
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TextPublisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c1997Description: xii, 288 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0804727600 (alk. paper); 9780804727600 (alk. paper); 0804727619 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780804727617 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): French poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Mimesis in literature | Politics and literature -- France | Tel quel (Paris, France) | Poésie française -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique | Mimêsis dans la littérature | Politique et littérature -- France | Mimesis | Dichtkunst | FransDDC classification: 841/.91409358 Other classification: 18.25 Online resources: Publisher description | Contributor biographical information | Free eBook from the Internet Archive | Additional information and access via Open Library Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-281) and index.
Introduction: Deconstruction, "Tel quel", and the legacy of Marx -- pt. 1. The "revolutionary" poetics of Tel quel: Politicizing the text -- Textual and cultural enclosures -- pt. 2. Rethinking the collective and the political: Dismantling the "Tel quel" community -- "Tel quel" and deconstruction -- pt. 3. Deconstructive poetics: Deconstruction on trial -- "Sharing the unshareable": deconstruction, Edmond Jabès, and the "thought of 'the Jews'" -- Of hospitality, responsibility, and the democratic "ideal": Derrida's 'Specters of Marx'.