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L'Autre de l'Un : l'experience de la negativite dans les recits de Maurice Blanchot

Levesque-Jalbert, Emile
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0030-455X
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1501151714242021

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2017, Master of Arts, Miami University, French.
This thesis, written in French, proposes itself as an inquiry into the intersection of literature and philosophy as it takes place in the work of Maurice Blanchot. Its starting point is negativity as the instrument of both dialectic and poetry. Following the path set in the famous article < La Litterature et le droit a la mort >, we linked language and death through the negative capacity that they share. More so, we found out that they represent the possibility for an experience of negativity, but this experience cannot be conceived as an access to negativity nor to its experience, but as a presence of an absence. Then, informed by Blanchot's critical interpretation of negativity, we approached two literary texts as narrativization of this experience of negativity. Our reading L'Arret de mort and La Folie du jour exposed the narrative potential of the Blanchotian understanding of negativity. Through the encounter with the other, the limit of reason and the limit of the narrative itself, we followed Blanchot's text in their approach to the obscurity that it is trying to reveal. Following that motion of unveiling obscurity, interruption, exteriorization, and the neuter became the main focuses of our analysis of Blanchot's narratives.
Jonathan Strauss, Dr (Advisor)
Audrey Wasser, Dr (Committee Member)
Elisabeth Hodges, Dr (Committee Member)
58 p.
Literature; Philosophy
Maurice Blanchot; Negativity; French literature

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  • Levesque-Jalbert, E. (2017). L'Autre de l'Un : l'experience de la negativite dans les recits de Maurice Blanchot [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1501151714242021

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Levesque-Jalbert, Emile. L'Autre de l'Un : l'experience de la negativite dans les recits de Maurice Blanchot. 2017. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1501151714242021.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Levesque-Jalbert, Emile. "L'Autre de l'Un : l'experience de la negativite dans les recits de Maurice Blanchot." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1501151714242021

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