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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fort, Jeff, 1966- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989.

Blanchot, Maurice.

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924.

Sublime, The, in literature.

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924--Criticism and interpretation.

Kafka, Franz.

Blanchot, Maurice--Criticism and interpretation.

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989--Criticism and interpretation.

Beckett, Samuel.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xii, 424 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780823254699

0823254690

OCLC:

858610569