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Remembering Oneself, Charting the Other. Memory as Intertextuality and Self-Reflexivity in the Workshop of Paul Auster - Softcover
- PublisherWissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 3868213627
- ISBN 13 9783868213621
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages299
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Remembering Oneself, Charting the Other: Memory as Intertextuality and Self-Reflexivity in the Works of Paul Auster (Cultures in America in Transition)
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ISBN 10: 3868213627
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. Paperback, x + 302 pages, NOT ex-library. Yellow highlighting in text and/or margins on 29 pages. Else book is clean, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Spine free of vertical creases. -- Paul Auster's oeuvre - novels, non-fiction, essays & poetry - acquires a new dimension when it is approached from the perspective of memory studies in literature. Memory in his texts is a variegated concept the forms and functions of which invite a closer analysis that the present volume pursues. On the one hand, memory is considered here as a theme and a question that Auster develops and attempts to answer. On the other hand, it is understood as a structuring and ordering device that provides him with a complex pattern for his narrative invention. The desire to define memory and to elucidate the elusive process of recollection inextricably involves the pursuit of the questions of narrative, story, and identity. The interrelated aspects of the self - the living self, the remembering/recollecting self, and the narrating/writing self - as well as the dynamic relation between the individual and the collective memory are recognized and discussed in this volume in terms of underlying all other queries that Auster pursues in his writing. The theoretical frame of reference in Remembering Oneself, Charting the Other - Memory as Intertextuality and Self-Reflexivity in the Works of Paul Auster finds its foundations in the writings of Mikhail Bakhtin and Sigmund Freud. It is further expanded and developed with recourse to the texts of Walter Benjamin, Gaston Bachelard, Paul Ricoeur, Maurice Blanchot, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Jacques Derrida, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Wolfgang Iser, Renate Lachmann, and Richard Terdiman, among others. The discussion of the literary and cultural memory in terms of an aesthetic intertextual dialogue is situated in the contexts of the works by Marcel Proust, and - most substantially - Franz Kafka and Samuel Beckett. --- Contents: Introduction; Part I: The Prosaics of Memory: The Everydayness of Invention in Paul Auster's Narrative 1 Given and the Created in the Act of Writing [Interplay of the Conscious and the Unconscious; Writing in Oscillation Between the Individual and the Collective Memory] 2 Memory as the Pharmakon: Work of Memory As the Work of Mourning 3 Aesthetics of Solitude and the Dialogic Relation of the Self and the Other [Auster's Third Person Narrative] 4 Gesture of the Handshake: Text As a Space of Communication and Memory; Part II: Memory's Flaneur, Flaneur's Memory: Auster's Peripatetic Re-collection of (Inter)textual Traces 1 Botanizing the White Rectangle: Auster's Intertextual Rhizome [Walk of Self-observation, Doubt, and Guilt; Insatiable Hunger, Stones of Failure, and the Gaze of the Other; Architectonics, the Rhizome, and the Theatre of Memory] 2 Between Walking and Writing: Auster's Flaneur As Gedächtnisträger [Losing the Way in the City of Displacement and Reevaluation; External Chance and Internal Necessity: In Oscillation Between the Self and the Other] 3 Waters of Lethe, the Liquidity of Memory, and the Music of Chance [How (Not) to Fall: The Walls of the Game, the Rules of Desire]; Part III: Inside and Outisde the "Dark Cauldron": Auster's Self-chronic(al) Space of the (Intra)text 1 It's All Being Mapped Out: Mimesis of Memory in Travels in the Scriptorium & Man in the Dark [In the Prison Room of (No) Recollection; Revenge of the Pharmakeus: Memory Folds Back on Itself; Auster's Self-chronic(al) Space of the Text] 2 Finding the Way Out: Auster's Play of the Real, the Fictive, and the Imaginary [Imag(e)ination and the Jigsaw Puzzle of the Narrative; Telephones, Parallel Worlds, and Self-disclosure; Battlefield of the Text: The Wars of the Past and the Future] 3 Writing Fanshawe, Written by Fanshawe: The Textual Play of Identity and Self-reflexivity [Behind the Door, in the Text: Balancing on the Threshold Between the Self and the Other]; Conclusion; List of P.Auster's Works. Seller Inventory # 006130
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Remembering Oneself, Charting the Other. Memory as Intertextuality and Self-Reflexivity in the Works of Paul Auster. (= CAT, Cultures in America in Transition; Band 4).
Published by
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2012
ISBN 10: 3868213627
ISBN 13: 9783868213621
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302 pp. TEXT IN ENGLISH. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 600 8vo. Softcover, no dust jacket, head with damage, back cover with slight scratch, else fine. Seller Inventory # 321277
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