Browsing by Subject "Blanchot"

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    “Being then nothing”: physicality, abjection and creation in Janice Galloway’s short fiction
    (Servicio de Publicaciones, Universidad de Murcia, 2019) Sacido Romero, Jorge
    This article explores the prominence of the body in Janice Galloway’s short fiction. Drawing mainly on Kristeva’s notions of the semiotic and the abject, the argument initially establishes the central place of physicality in Galloway’s poetics. Her creative project is inspired by a desire to transmit in writing the experience of being alive, of how being is intrinsically fragile, inexorably bound to extinction. In a particularly sharp manner that engages the reader more actively than her novels, her short stories exhibit both formally and thematically an interaction of the symbolic and the semiotic. As being attentive to life entails an awareness of death if one is to write realistically, the ensuing discussion of stories from her three collections –Blood (1991), Where you find it (1996) and Jellyfish (2015)– reveals that abjection, the extreme version of the semiotic that threatens to cancel out the symbolic, is paramount in her creative universe.
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    Community, exposed singularity and death in Mrs Dalloway.
    (Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2024) López Sánchez-Vizcaíno, María Jesús
    This essay brings Virginia Woolf and Jean-Luc Nancy into dialogue, focusing on their similar critique of essentialized models of community and evocation of forms of being-with that derive from the experiences of singularity and death. It identifies two forms of community in Woolf’s novel Mrs Dalloway (1925). The first one corresponds to Nancy’s conception of the immanent community, built upon essence and fusion, and in which death is provided with an ideological meaning. In Woolf’s novel, this communitarian logic traverses the official, ritualistic way in which England has sublimated the death and loss caused by the First World War, and the repressive conventions and the authoritarian spirit of the governing classes. An alternative kind of community, however, is suggested in Mrs Dalloway, one that can be identified with Nancy’s conception of the inoperative community: a community of singular beings who share their finitude, exposure and death. Blanchot’s ideas on the transient community of lovers and Butler’s theorization of a ‘we’ based upon common vulnerability and loss also shed light on this novel’s concern with antisocial bonds between characters that escape traditional forms of affiliation.
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    «Quien muere en el mundo sin razón…» Lecturas blanchotianas en torno a la muerte en Rilke
    (Universidad de Murcia, 2012) Billi, Noelia
    La originalidad de la intervención de M. Blanchot en el ámbito de las críticas deconstructivas al tema de la propiedad/impropiedad de la muerte en la obra de M. Heidegger ha pasado, en general, desapercibida. En este escrito examino la tematización de la muerte en la obra de R. M. Rilke entre los años 1899 y 1923. A continuación, recorro el abordaje que de este tema rilkeano realizó M. Blanchot en El espacio literario. Por último, relevando las líneas de fuerza de la lectura blanchotiana, se pondrá de manifiesto hasta qué punto el pensamiento de Rilke puede constituir una herramienta para deconstruir cierto resto de subjetividad moderna que habitaría la noción de muerte del existenciario ser-para-lamuerte de M. Heidegger.