The imperative to write destitutions of the sublime in Kafka, Blanchot, and Beckett / Jeff Fort.
| Author/creator | Fort, Jeff, 1966- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | New York : Fordham University Press, 2014. |
| Description | xii, 424 pages ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| 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 note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-412) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2013030646 |
| ISBN | 9780823254699 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |