destitutions of the sublime in Kafka, Blanchot, and Beckett /
Jeff Fort
First edition
xii, 424 pages ;
24 cm
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
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Beckett, Samuel,1906-1989-- Criticism and interpretation
Blanchot, Maurice-- Criticism and interpretation
Kafka, Franz,1883-1924-- Criticism and interpretation