{"product_id":"the-event-literature-and-theory-hardcover","title":"The Event: Literature and Theory - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eIlai Rowner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat 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 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIlai Rowner is an adjunct lecturer of French and comparative literature at Tel Aviv University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 328\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.15 x 8.82 x 5.55 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757600309536,"sku":"9780803245853","price":97.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/bb3596f1e10debbded543c9311181bf2.webp?v=1780106265","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-event-literature-and-theory-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}