Table of Contents for Gregg, J.: Maurice Blanchot and the Literature of Transgression.

Maurice Blanchot and the Literature of Transgression
John Gregg

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Acknowledgments
A Note on Sources
Introduction 3
1 Literature and Transgression 10
2 Language, History, and Their Destinies of Incompletion 18
3 Blanchot's Suicidal Artist: Writing and the (Im)Possibility of Death 35
4 Mythical Portrayals of Writing and Reading 46
5 Writing the Disaster: Henri Sorge's Journal 72
Silencing the Critics of the State 72
An Awkward Silence 83
The Crisis of (Mis)Representation 87
The Poetics of Writing the Disaster 98
Ink-Stained Pages 108
Sorge's "Fable" and Fragments on Narcissus 115
Sorge's Revolt 121
6 Flagrants Delits: Caught in the Act of Self-Reading 127
Discreet Violations of the Noli 127
Getting Started, Finishing Up: The Pro/Epilogue of L'Attente l'oubli 132
Putting Their Story into Words 138
Perspectives of Authority 143
The Reversal 153
Flagrants delits 159
Qui parle? 162
De Man's Blind Spot 168
The Law of the Genre 171
Conclusion: Blanchot's Postmodern Legacy 173
Notes 201
Bibliography 233
Index 239