The imperative to write : destitutions of the sublime in Kafka, Blanchot, and Beckett / Jeff Fort
- Author
- Fort, Jeff, 1966-
- Published
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Physical Description
- xii, 424 pages ; 24 cm
- 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.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780823254699 (cloth : alk. paper)
0823254690 (cloth : alk. paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-412) and index.
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