TY - BOOK AU - Fort,Jeff ED - Project Muse. TI - The imperative to write: destitutions of the sublime in Kafka, Blanchot, and Beckett SN - 9780823254729 AV - PN56.S7416 F68 2014 U1 - 809 23 PY - 2014/// CY - New York PB - Fordham University Press KW - Beckett, Samuel, KW - Blanchot, Maurice KW - Kafka, Franz, KW - Sublime, The, in literature KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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'arrĂȘt 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780823254729/ ER -