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Omissions are not accidents : modern apophaticism from Henry James to Jacques Derrida / Christopher J. Knight.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Knight, Christopher J., 1952- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.
- Literature, Modern.
- Negativity (Philosophy) in literature.
- Silence in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (278 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto, [Canada] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Omissions Are Not Accidents, Christopher J. Knight analyzes the widespread apophaticism in texts from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century.
- Contents:
- Preface
- Henry James ('The middle years')
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (Tractatus logico-philosophicus)
- Gertrude Stein (Tender buttons)
- Paul Cezanne and Rainer Maria Rilke (Letters on Cezanne)
- Ernest Hemingway (In our time)
- Martin Heidegger ('What is metaphysics?')
- T.S. Eliot
- Virginia Woolf
- Samuel Beckett (Watt)
- Mark Rothko
- William Gaddis (The recognitions)
- Vladimir Nabokov (Speak, memory)
- Theodor Adorno (Negative dialectics)
- Susan Sontag ('The aesthetics of silence')
- Penelope Fitzgerald (The blue flower)
- Krzysztof Kieślovski (The double life of Veronique)
- Frank Kermode (The genesis of secrecy)
- Jacques Derrida ('How to avoid speaking : denials')
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4426-8571-9
- OCLC:
- 759157441
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