The Imperative to Write : Destitutions of the Sublime in Kafka, Blanchot, and Beckett /
Is writing haunted by a categorical imperative? Does the Kantian sublime continue to shape the writer's vocation, even for twentieth-century authors? What precise shape, form, or figure does this residue of sublimity take in the fictions that follow from itand that leave it in ruins? This book...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2014.
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Edición: | First edition. |
Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Kafka. Kafka's teeth: the literary gewissenbiss
- The ecstasy of judgment
- Embodied violence and the leap from the law: "in The penal colony" and The trial
- Degradation of the sublime: A hunger artist
- Blanchot. Pointed instants: Blanchot's exigencies
- The shell and the mask: L'arrêt de mort
- The dead look: The death mask, the corpse image, and the haunting of fiction
- Beckett. Beckett's voices and the paradox of expression
- Company, but not enough
- Conclusion: speech unredeemed: from the call of conscience to the torture of language.