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" The imperative to write : "
Jeff Fort
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BL
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637484
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Fort, Jeff,1966-
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The imperative to write : : destitutions of the sublime in Kafka, Blanchot, and Beckett /\ Jeff Fort
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First edition
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xii, 424 pages ;; 24 cm
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9780823254699
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: 0823254690
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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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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Kafka, Franz,1883-1924-- Criticism and interpretation
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Blanchot, Maurice-- Criticism and interpretation
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Beckett, Samuel,1906-1989-- Criticism and interpretation
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Sublime, The, in literature
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| LC Classification
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PN56.S7416F68 2014
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