Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 10:21:31 -0500
From: scott.skidmore.edu-AT-scott.skidmore.edu (Reg Lilly)
Subject: Re: MB: help


There are several texts that deal with the essential solitude and death;
you might try browsing the Blanchot Resource Page at
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/blanchot/blanchot_mainpage.htm
.  There are a number of articles and a couple of books that would be
helpful.
Reg Lilly


>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 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'm especially interested in Blanchot's thoughts on "The essential
>solitude" and his use of "experience" for writing. I think it difficult
>to deal wih the notions of death and the outside as Foucault has
>elaborate it in his essay on Blanchot.
>
>I'm also know Derridas The Ear of the other - Otobiography, but cant
>understand it completely in its consequences and I don't understand his
>relations to Blanchot in the roundtable discussion afterwards.
>
>I look forward to hearing from you all,
>Arne