Apocalyptic futures : marked bodies and the violence of the text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee /

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"This book sets out to articulate a new theory and textual practice of the relation between literary reception and embodiment by arguing that certain modern literary texts have apocalyptic futures. Rather than claim that great writers have clairvoyant powers, it examines the ways in which a tex...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Samolsky, Russell
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2011.
Edición:1st ed.
Temas:
Kafka, Franz, > 1883-1924 > Criticism and interpretation.
Conrad, Joseph, > 1857-1924 > Criticism and interpretation.
Coetzee, J. M., > 1940- > Criticism and interpretation.
Spiegelman, Art > Criticism and interpretation.
Coetzee, J. M., > 1940-
Conrad, Joseph, > 1857-1924
Kafka, Franz, > 1883-1924
Spiegelman, Art
Coetzee, J. M. > 1940- > Waiting for the barbarians
Conrad, Joseph > 1857-1924 > Heart of darkness
Kafka, Franz > 1883-1924 > In der Strafkolonie
Kafka, Franz > 1883-1924
1900-1999
Fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Ethics in literature.
Apocalyptic literature.
Prophecy in literature.
Violence in literature.
Mimesis in literature.
Morale dans la littérature.
Littérature apocalyptique.
Prophétie dans la littérature.
Violence dans la littérature.
Mimêsis dans la littérature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > General.
Apocalyptic literature
Ethics in literature
Fiction
Mimesis in literature
Prophecy in literature
Violence in literature
Gewalt > Motiv
Weltuntergang > Motiv
Literatur
Zukunft > Motiv
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Writing Violence: Marked Bodies and Retroactive Signs
  • 1. Metaleptic Machines: Kafka, Kabbalah, Shoah
  • 2. Apocalyptic Futures: Heart of Darkness, Embodiment, and African Genocide
  • 3. The Body in Ruins: Torture, Allegory, and Materiality in J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians
  • Coda: The Time of Inscription: Maus and the Apocalypse of Number.
  • Introduction: writing violence : marked bodies and retroactive signs
  • Metaleptic machines : Kafka, Kabbalah, Shoah
  • Kafka and Shoah
  • Kafka and Kabbalah
  • Inscriptional machines
  • Apocalyptic futures : Heart of darkness, embodiment, and African genocide
  • Heart of darkness and African genocide
  • The genealogy of apocalypse
  • Delayed decodings
  • Marlow and messianism
  • The body in ruins : torture, allegory, and materiality in J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the barbarians
  • The politics of the eternal present
  • Torture and allegory
  • The body in ruins
  • The materiality of the letter
  • Mourning the bones
  • Coda : the time of inscription: Maus and the apocalypse of number.

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