{"product_id":"the-event-literature-and-theory-9780803245853","title":"The Event: Literature and Theory","description":"What is an event? From a philosophical perspective, events are irregular occurrences--moments of change and interruption--categorized by human perception, language, and thought. While philosophers have pored over the subject of events extensively in recent years, \u003ci\u003eThe Event: Literature and Theory\u003c\/i\u003e seeks to ground it: What is literature's approach to the event? How does literature produce and give testimony to events? \u003cbr\u003e Ilai Rowner's study not only revisits some of the most important thinkers of our time, including Maurice Blanchot, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, and Martin Heidegger, it also develops a critical approach to literature that questions the meaning of the literary event through examinations of literary works by Marcel Proust, Louis-Ferdinand C line, and T. S. Eliot. \u003cbr\u003e Rowner offers a new method of thinking about the particular characteristics of the event within literary works and defines the creative value of literature as the aspiration toward \u003ci\u003ethe un-happening within the happening\u003c\/i\u003e. In this study the experience of literature--as an act of both writing and reading--becomes the struggle to capture the excessive movement of the event while also revealing the creative energy within that work of literature.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ilai Rowner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.22lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.82h x 5.55w x 1.15d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803245853\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIlai Rowner is an adjunct lecturer of French and comparative literature at Tel Aviv University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40779915690099,"sku":"9.7808E+12","price":89.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_2f7e8878-ab06-4624-8950-fb00d8a84e0d.jpg?v=1680618119","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-event-literature-and-theory-9780803245853","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}