destitutions of the sublime in Kafka, Blanchot, and Beckett /
First Statement of Responsibility
Jeff Fort
EDITION STATEMENT
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First edition
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xii, 424 pages ;
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24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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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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PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Beckett, Samuel,1906-1989-- Criticism and interpretation
Blanchot, Maurice-- Criticism and interpretation
Kafka, Franz,1883-1924-- Criticism and interpretation