Literature and Event : Twenty-First Century Reformulations (Paperback)

The Gift of the Event MANTRA MUKIM SECTION I Senses 1 Plasticity and the Event of Literature: Reading Catherine Malabou with Anne Carson STEPHEN DOUGHERTY 2 Margin, Letter, and Sentence: The Graphic Event THOMAS GOULD 3 Unexceptional Events; Or, Cixous’s Scarcely Audible Literature NAOMI WALTHAM- SMITH 4 ‘Peut- e tre aurais- je d u penser’: Research and Event in Proust BRYAN COUNTER SECTION II Possibility/ Impossibility 5 Poetics of the Event or Evental Poetics? Writing as Becoming Imperceptible in Howard Barker’s Hurts Given and Received ALIREZA FAKHRKONANDEH 6 Literature, Event, and Formal Compossibility KURT CAVENDER 7 The Withness of the Earth: Haptic Epistemology in Climatic Times MIN JI CHOI 8 What Happens When Nothing Happens? Near- and Micro- Events in Contemporary Poetry SARAH BOUTTIER SECTION III After: History, Narrative, Form 9 Plastic Events, Spectral Events: Literature and the "Real of the Phantasm," Between Malabou and Derrida THOMAS CLEMENT MERCIER 10 On Deities: The Aesthetics of Concretion MILIND WAKANKAR 11 L?yin Kete Nibi N S?l?: Disaster, Event, and Ideophone ADELEKE ADE?K? 12 The Eventful Shipwreck: Robinson Crusoe, Jenichiro Oyabe, and the World Literary Map of the Drifters IRMAK SAYGIN SECTION IV Forms 13 The Event of the Literary Work DEREK ATTRIDGE 14 History, Tearing: Hamacher’s Literary Events RONALD MENDOZA- DE JESUS 15 Serendipitous Events: Failures and Transformations of Projects in Contemporary Anglophone Literature ALEXANDER SCHERR 16 Narrating the Other: On Speaking of the Origin of Time and the Time of the Origin LUCAS SCOTT WRIGHT