Omissions are not accidents : modern apophaticism from Henry James to Jacques Derrida /

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In Omissions Are Not Accidents, Christopher J. Knight analyzes the widespread apophaticism in texts from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Knight, Christopher J., 1952- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2010]
Subjects:
1900-1999
Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism.
Negativity (Philosophy) in literature.
Silence in literature.
Littérature > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Négativité (Philosophie) dans la littérature.
Silence dans la littérature.
PHILOSOPHY > Religious.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Literature, Modern
Negativity (Philosophy) in literature
Silence in literature
Literary criticism
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Henry James ('The middle years')
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein (Tractatus logico-philosophicus)
  • Gertrude Stein (Tender buttons)
  • Paul Cézanne and Rainer Maria Rilke (Letters on Cézanne)
  • Ernest Hemingway (In our time)
  • Martin Heidegger ('What is metaphysics?')
  • T.S. Eliot
  • Virginia Woolf
  • Samuel Beckett (Watt)
  • Mark Rothko
  • William Gaddis (The recognitions)
  • Vladimir Nabokov (Speak, memory)
  • Theodor Adorno (Negative dialectics)
  • Susan Sontag ('The aesthetics of silence')
  • Penelope Fitzgerald (The blue flower)
  • Krzysztof Kieślovski (The double life of Véronique)
  • Frank Kermode (The genesis of secrecy)
  • Jacques Derrida ('How to avoid speaking : denials')
  • Epilogue.

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