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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (439 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780823254729
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Imperative to WriteLOC classification:
  • PN56.S7416 -- .F678 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION: "Why Do You Write?"-The Fault of Writing -- PART ONE: KAFKA -- 1. Kafka's Teeth: The Literary Gewissenbiss -- 2. The Ecstasy of Judgment -- 3. Embodied Violence and the Leap from the Law: "In the Penal Colony" and The Trial -- 4. Degradation of the Sublime: "A Hunger Artist" -- PART TWO: BLANCHOT -- 5. Pointed Instants: Blanchot's Exigencies -- 6. The Shell and the Mask: L'arrêt de mort -- 7. The Dead Look: The Death Mask, the Corpse Image, and the Haunting of Fiction -- PART THREE: BECKETT -- 8. Beckett's Voices and the Paradox of Expression -- 9. Company, But Not Enough -- Conclusion: Speech Unredeemed: From the Call of Conscience to the Torture of Language -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Summary: A philosophical analysis of the works of Franz Kafka, Maurice Blanchot and Samuel Beckett laying stress on the aesthetic notion of the sublime, especially as defined by philosopher Immanuel Kant, and arguing that these authors incorporate sublimity into their writing while also undermining the grandeur this traditionally implies.
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Cover -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION: "Why Do You Write?"-The Fault of Writing -- PART ONE: KAFKA -- 1. Kafka's Teeth: The Literary Gewissenbiss -- 2. The Ecstasy of Judgment -- 3. Embodied Violence and the Leap from the Law: "In the Penal Colony" and The Trial -- 4. Degradation of the Sublime: "A Hunger Artist" -- PART TWO: BLANCHOT -- 5. Pointed Instants: Blanchot's Exigencies -- 6. The Shell and the Mask: L'arrêt de mort -- 7. The Dead Look: The Death Mask, the Corpse Image, and the Haunting of Fiction -- PART THREE: BECKETT -- 8. Beckett's Voices and the Paradox of Expression -- 9. Company, But Not Enough -- Conclusion: Speech Unredeemed: From the Call of Conscience to the Torture of Language -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

A philosophical analysis of the works of Franz Kafka, Maurice Blanchot and Samuel Beckett laying stress on the aesthetic notion of the sublime, especially as defined by philosopher Immanuel Kant, and arguing that these authors incorporate sublimity into their writing while also undermining the grandeur this traditionally implies.

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