Hello Arne,
this sounds indeed like an ambitious project, and an exciting one. Coming
myself from psychology I'm on not that close terms with literature theory,
and most of the stuff I read on autobiography comes from a constructivist
camp. I guess what Marc Freeman does in _Rewriting the Self_, Routledge, 1995
(or 96) is a sort of integration. BTW, hast du eine genaue Literaturangabe
fuer den Foucault-Text, den Du als _Discourse on Language_ erwaehnst?
Regards, Heiko
> 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
>
>
this sounds indeed like an ambitious project, and an exciting one. Coming
myself from psychology I'm on not that close terms with literature theory,
and most of the stuff I read on autobiography comes from a constructivist
camp. I guess what Marc Freeman does in _Rewriting the Self_, Routledge, 1995
(or 96) is a sort of integration. BTW, hast du eine genaue Literaturangabe
fuer den Foucault-Text, den Du als _Discourse on Language_ erwaehnst?
Regards, Heiko
> 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
>
>