Literature and communication in the works of Georges Bataille and Angela Carter

This thesis addresses Bataille’s claims that ‘Literature is <i>communication</i>. Communication requires loyalty’. I begin by contesting Habermas’ allegations in <i>the Philosophical Discourse of Modernity</i> that Bataille invokes an ‘other’ to reason in his notions of heter...

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Main Author: Yong, Wern Mei
Published: University of Edinburgh 2006
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.664135