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The Imperative to Write : Destitutions of the Sublime in Kafka, Blanchot, and Beckett /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fort, Jeff, 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
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.