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Radical Indecision
2010
Overview
In his newest book, Radical Indecision , esteemed
scholar Leslie Hill poses the following question: If the task of a
literary critic is to make decisions about the value of a literary
work or the values embodied in it, decisions in turn based on some
inherited or established values, what happens when that piece of
literature fails to subscribe to the established values? Put
another way, how should literary criticism respond to the paradox
that in order to make critical judgments of literary works, it is
first necessary to suspend judgment and to consider the
impossibility of making a final decision? Hill pursues these ideas
in the works of leading French critics Roland Barthes, Maurice
Blanchot, and Jacques Derrida, discussing writers such as Sade,
Mallarmé, Proust, Artaud, Genet, Celan, and Duras.
Hill concludes that, despite their differences, Barthes,
Blanchot, and Derrida share a conviction that criticism cannot take
place without exposure to that resistance to decision that is
inseparable from reading and that they address diversely as the
\"neuter\" or the \"undecidable.\" Radical Indecision offers
the first sustained exploration of the \"undecidable.\" This
comprehensive book breathes new life into the discipline of
literary theory and will be essential reading for students and
scholars alike.
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Subject
/ Barthes, Roland -- Criticism and interpretation
/ Blanchot, Maurice -- Criticism and interpretation
/ Criticism -- History -- 20th century
/ Criticism and interpretation
/ Derrida, Jacques -- Criticism and interpretation
/ European
/ French
/ History
/ Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
ISBN
026803107X, 9780268031077, 9780268081669, 0268081662
