Literature and the Encounter with Immanence.

Intro -- Literature and the Encounter with Immanence -- Copyright -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Reading the Encounter: An Introduction -- 1 "We've been inside what we wanted all along": David Foster Wallace's Immanent Structures -- 2 Suffering Immanence in Samuel Beckett's The Unnamable -- 3 Immanence with a (Negative) Difference: Spinoza, Borges, and Barth -- 4 Explosions in the Family Theater: A Schizoanalytic Reading of Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day -- 5 Immanent Realism: Time and the Corporate Form in William Gaddis's JR -- 6 Peace and Love (and Fuck) as the Foundation of the World -- Spinoza's Ethics in Samuel Delany's Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders -- 7 The Wanderings of Displaced Memory: Immanence in the Essays of Czesław Miłosz -- 8 A Voyage in Immanence: Alberto Caeiro as an Expression of Spinoza's Ethics -- 9 "One Kind of Knowledge": Poetic Language, Human Being, and Immanent Truth -- Index.

In Literature and the Encounter with Immanence Brynnar Swenson collects nine original essays that approach the relationship between literature and immanence through methodologies grounded in the philosophy of Spinoza.

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