num_pages: 200
description: Explores the ways in which Blanchot and Bataille have influenced post-structuralist and deconstructionist critics. The book suggests that a critic should be a ventriloquist, taking his cues from the author's words.
language: English
title: Passion and Excess: Blanchot, Bataille, and Literary Theory
titlecomplete: Passion and Excess: Blanchot, Bataille, and Literary Theory
genres: Philosophy
ratings_count: 6
publisher: University Press of Florida