The imperative to write destitutions of the sublime in Kafka, Blanchot, and Beckett / Jeff Fort.

Author/creator Fort, Jeff, 1966-
Format Electronic
EditionFirst edition.
Publication InfoNew York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
Descriptionxii, 424 pages ; 24 cm
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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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 405-412) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2013030646
ISBN9780823254699 (cloth : alk. paper)

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