File spoon-archives/deleuze-guattari.archive/deleuze-guattari_1996/d-g_Mar.96, message 198


Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 13:11:22 -0500 (CDT)
From: schrift-AT-AC.GRIN.EDU (Alan Schrift)
Subject: Re: Suggestions on Nietzsche please. . .


>I'm teaching an Introduction to Comparative Literature entitled Crises as 
>Crossroads this fall.  The class will likely be rather heterogeneous, 
>consisting of some hard-core comp lit majors, a few young, 1st and 2nd 
>yr., folks still exploring introductory courses for possible majors, and 
>a cross section (age wise) of students simply seeking to fulfill this or 
>that breadth requirement for the university.
>
>I intend to tuse the topic to introduce students to the critical study of 
>literature and literary theory by focusing on the relationship between 
>crisis and creativity (I had originally described the course as studying 
>writing about being at the end of your rope; how do you think you got 
>there, how does it feel, what do you do when you get there, how do you 
>know you are really at the end, etc.).  
>
>I've wanted to include some theoretical/philosophical texts, alongside 
>certain literary works, and it has occurred to me (from a long-ago 
>reading) that Nietzsche might fit well here (engaging, not too hard to 
>read for those who haven't read a lot of philosophy or theory) and so I 
>wondered if someone on this list (since my understanding of what's 
>valuable in Nietzsche, apart from personal pleasure in reading him, comes 
>from Deleuze) might be able to suggest a particular text (or fragments) 
>that would be suited to the course.  Of course, if the request inspires 
>you to think of something else entirely, I'd welcome such suggestions as 
>well.  Thanks
>
>Best,
>
>Santiago

Santiago,

I've used in a similar course N's "On truth and lies in an extra-moral
sense," which raises many issues relevant to literature and literary theory.
(You might want to look at Sarah Kofman's _Nietzsche and Metaphor_ to see
how she discusses this piece [in Chap. 4]).  Another suggestion (please
forgive the self-reference), focused specifically on N's comments on
"Interpretation" is the selections I included in _Transforming the
Hermeneutic Context:  From Nietzsche to Nancy_, ed. Gayle L. Ormiston and
Alan Schrift (SUNY Press, 1990), which includes about twenty pages of what I
think are N's most significant remarks on interpretation, especially as they
relate to literary theory.

Best,
Alan Schrift


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