{"product_id":"a-critical-encounter-bataille-and-blanchot-exploring-the-literary-real-9780854572823","title":"A Critical Encounter: Bataille and Blanchot: Exploring the Literary Real","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Zoe Angeli\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of London Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of London Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - French\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew terms have been more prone and resistant to definition than the \u003ci\u003eliterary\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003ereal\u003c\/i\u003e. Bringing them together, under the contrivance of the \u003ci\u003eLiterary Real\u003c\/i\u003e, sheds new light on the understanding of the terms \u003ci\u003ereal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ebeing\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eexistence\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ethe literary\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eliterature\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ewriting \u003c\/i\u003eand alters our thinking on them. By means of Bataille's exposure to the violent disorder of life, and Blanchot's passionate meditation on literature and language, \u003ci\u003eA\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eCritical Encounter\u003c\/i\u003e addresses two questions that are constantly entwined: first, what kind of \u003ci\u003ereal \u003c\/i\u003eis involved and disclosed in writing - and how does this differ from reality in its more traditional sense and from conventional representations of reality? Second, what is writing's own mode of 'being'? In what way is it particular and what are the implications of this particularity? This volume investigates the real effect the existence of literature has on our lives: how it challenges and reconfigures the way we perceive ourselves, our place in the world and our relations with others.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of London Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47595871994007,"sku":"9780854572823","price":3844.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780854572823.webp?v=1774991528","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-critical-encounter-bataille-and-blanchot-exploring-the-literary-real-9780854572823","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}