Literature and Error
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Literature and Error

A Literary Take on Mistakes and Errors

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Literature and Error

A Literary Take on Mistakes and Errors

About this book

Literature and Error comprises a series of essays by French scholars who seek to lay down the foundations of a theory that would argue for the productivity of errors and mistakes in literary works. While the "necessity of errors" has repeatedly been tackled from a philosophical angle, rarely has the demonstration been attempted from the standpoint of literature. Beyond the thematic importance of errors (evidenced in the age-old motifs of learning from one's errors, mistaken identities, malapropism, comic or tragic misunderstandings, hamartia, the fallibility of man, etc.), the proposition is made here that errare is not just humanum but also literarium —that "Erring Becomes Literature" with or, preferably, without corrections. Indeed, approached from various angles, it is the literariness of errors and mistakes that this joint study sets out to explore. Modern and contemporary Anglo-American literature structurally accommodates and even welcomes errors. Ranging from Edgar Allan Poe, James Joyce, and Jonathan Franzen to Robert Browning and Elizabeth Bishop, the authors and works discussed assess the seaworthiness of errors when launched into deep (literary) water. Viewed in that light, errors not only cease to be errors of something (of taste, conception, judgment, calculation), they become errors per se, valued for their own sake. Deliberately comprehensive and broad-ranging, this volume should appeal not just to scholars and students but also to readers who share an interest in theory and close reading alike.

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Information

Publisher
Peter Lang Group
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9781433136993
eBook ISBN
9781433139697
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
English Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction (Isabelle Alfandary / Marc Porée)
  5. Chapter 1: Glances at a Poetics of Error (Marc Porée)
  6. Chapter 2: “Truth Broken in Prismatic Hues”: False Prophets, Ambiguous Testimonies, and Poetic Truth in the Works of Robert Browning (François Crampe)
  7. Chapter 3: Take a Closer Look, or the System of Error in Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetry (Christine Savinel)
  8. Chapter 4: “That day I’ll be in step with what escaped me”: Senses and the Rhythm of Error in the Work of Seamus Heaney (Fanny Quément)
  9. Chapter 5: Error/Mirror: How to Generate Fiction (Jean-Jacques Lecercle)
  10. Chapter 6: Has Mr. Utterson the Right to Err? (Jean-Pierre Naugrette)
  11. Chapter 7: Literature and the Sensation of Error (Catherine Lanone)
  12. Chapter 8: Henry James’s “Theatre of Error and Renouncement”: Guy Domville and the Novels of the Experimental Period (Dennis Tredy)
  13. Chapter 9: Errare Americanum Est: On Errors in American Fiction (Isabelle Alfandary)
  14. Chapter 10: Language Never Errs”: A Saussurean Study of Some Mistakes in James Joyce’s Works (Sylvain Belluc)
  15. Chapter 11: The—Forced?—Choice of Error in Sorrentino’s Writing (Juliette Nicolini)
  16. Chapter 12: Comic Mistakes and Intimate Errors in Jonathan Coe’s Fiction (Laurent Mellet)
  17. Chapter 13: Jonathan Franzen’s Tragi-Comedy of Errors (Béatrice Pire)
  18. Contributors