Hello all,
I'm a literature student and Im lurking on this mailing list for some
weeks. Im working on a
dissertation about modern autobiography using Foucault, Derrida and
Blanchot.
My primary texts include Nietzsche, Benjamin, Barthes, Leiris,
Robbe-Grillet ...
Im doing two things, first an archeology of autobiographical discourse
beginning at the end of the 18 th century, analysing epistemological
premises and the relation to our changing notions of autobiography as we
read them in theoretical text about autobiography (Dilthey, Misch,
Lejeune, deMan), and second Im trying to describe textual principles of
autobiographies, which stress temporality - delayment and
Nachtrdglichkeit.
I'm interested in Foucauld's notion of literature developed in his
essays on madness and also in his essays on Blanchot and Bataille.
I find it difficult to deal with the notions of death and outside, he
elaborates with reference to Blanchot.
Does anyone has an idea how to conceptualize his remarks on these
concepts, one finds at the end of the Oreder of things, in the mentioned
essays and also in the second part of Discourse on Language.
And second, does anyone know about a positiv discourse analysis or
archeology which deals with a literary subject?
I would be grateful if anyone would like to make some suggestions (or
offer any advice /warning) or if anyone can make references to relevant
texts.
I look forward to hearing from you all,
Arne
I'm a literature student and Im lurking on this mailing list for some
weeks. Im working on a
dissertation about modern autobiography using Foucault, Derrida and
Blanchot.
My primary texts include Nietzsche, Benjamin, Barthes, Leiris,
Robbe-Grillet ...
Im doing two things, first an archeology of autobiographical discourse
beginning at the end of the 18 th century, analysing epistemological
premises and the relation to our changing notions of autobiography as we
read them in theoretical text about autobiography (Dilthey, Misch,
Lejeune, deMan), and second Im trying to describe textual principles of
autobiographies, which stress temporality - delayment and
Nachtrdglichkeit.
I'm interested in Foucauld's notion of literature developed in his
essays on madness and also in his essays on Blanchot and Bataille.
I find it difficult to deal with the notions of death and outside, he
elaborates with reference to Blanchot.
Does anyone has an idea how to conceptualize his remarks on these
concepts, one finds at the end of the Oreder of things, in the mentioned
essays and also in the second part of Discourse on Language.
And second, does anyone know about a positiv discourse analysis or
archeology which deals with a literary subject?
I would be grateful if anyone would like to make some suggestions (or
offer any advice /warning) or if anyone can make references to relevant
texts.
I look forward to hearing from you all,
Arne