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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fort, Jeff, 1966-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Kafka, Franz, > 1883-1924.
Blanchot, Maurice.
Beckett, Samuel, > 1906-1989.
Kafka, Franz, > 1883-1924 > Criticism and interpretation.
Blanchot, Maurice > Criticism and interpretation.
Beckett, Samuel, > 1906-1989 > Criticism and interpretation.
Sublime, The, in literature.
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Sublime dans la litterature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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