Idylls of the Wanderer: Outside in Literature and Theory

by Henry Sussman

Book Overview

This book is an extended inquiry into the dimension of exteriority constructed by philosophical systems and literary works. Literature has, since its inception, depended on a rogue's gallery of outsiders--the more outlandish the better, with human attributes optional--as the impetus to its events and the motive for its developments. Philosophers have also vacillated between safeguarding the purity and consistency of their systematic projects and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823227707
• ISBN13: 9780823227709
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"