The imperative to write
Fort, Jeff, 1966-
The imperative to write destitutions of the sublime in Kafka, Blanchot, and Beckett / [electronic resource] : Jeff Fort. - First edition. - New York : Fordham University Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm.) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780823254729
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 --Criticism and interpretation.
Blanchot, Maurice--Criticism and interpretation.
Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 --Criticism and interpretation.
Sublime, The, in literature.
Electronic books.
PN56.S7416 / F68 2014
809
The imperative to write destitutions of the sublime in Kafka, Blanchot, and Beckett / [electronic resource] : Jeff Fort. - First edition. - New York : Fordham University Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm.) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780823254729
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 --Criticism and interpretation.
Blanchot, Maurice--Criticism and interpretation.
Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 --Criticism and interpretation.
Sublime, The, in literature.
Electronic books.
PN56.S7416 / F68 2014
809