Research Catalog

Title

Möbian Nights : reading literature and darkness / Sandor Goodhart.

Author

Goodhart, Sandor

Publication

• New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2017.
• ©2017

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Details

Description

xv, 329 pages; 25 cm

Summary

• "Möbian Nights: Literary Reading in a Time of Crisis develops a new understanding of literary reading: that in the wake of disasters like the Holocaust, death remains a premise of our experience rather than a future. Challenging customary "aesthetic" assumptions that we write in order not to die, Sandor Goodhart suggests (with Kafka) we write to die. Drawing upon analyses developed by Girard, Foucault, Blanchot, and Levinas (along with examples from Homer to Beckett), Möbian Nights proposes that all literature works "autobiographically", which is to say, in the wake of disaster; with the credo "I died; therefore, I am"; and for which the language of topology (for example, the "Möbius strip") offers a vocabulary for naming the "deep structure" of such literary, critical, and scriptural sacrificial and anti-sacrificial dynamics."--
• "Utilizing insights drawn from mathematical topology, from French critical theory and literature, and from Holocaust studies, Sandor Goodhart articulates a new understanding of the relation of literary reading to disaster"--

Series Statement

Violence, desire, and the sacred ; vol. 6

Uniform Title

Violence, desire, and the sacred ; v. 6.

Subject

• Criticism
• Disasters in literature
• Crises in literature
• Death in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Möbian turns : difference as continuity -- 1. After the tragic vision : Krieger and criticism, Lentricchia and crisis -- 2. Disfiguring de man : literature, history, and collaboration -- 3. Witnessing the impossible : Laub, Felman, and the trauma of testimony -- 4. Documenting fiction : Kolitz, van Beeck, Levinas, and Holocaust witness -- 5. "And darkness upon the face of the deep" : counter-redemptive hermeneutics in Wiesel, Mauriac, Cayrol, Blanchot, Levinas, and Genesis 1 -- 6. Criticism, literature, and the Möbian -- 7. Literarary reading, the Möbian, and the posthumous -- Conclusion: versions of night : reading literature and darkness bibliography -- Index.

Call Number

JFE 17-9520

ISBN

• 9781501326936
• 1501326937

LCCN

2017002516

OCLC

985966577

Author

Goodhart, Sandor, author.

Title

Möbian Nights : reading literature and darkness / Sandor Goodhart.

Publisher

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2017.

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Violence, desire, and the sacred ; vol. 6

Violence, desire, and the sacred ; v. 6.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Form:

Online version: Goodhart, Sandor, author. Möbian Nights New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017 9781501326943

Research Call Number

JFE 17-9520