The Imperative to Write : : Destitutions of the Sublime in Kafka, Blanchot, and Beckett / / Jeff Fort.
Is writing haunted by a categorical imperative? Does the Kantian sublime continue to shape the writer’s vocation, even for twentieth-century authors? What precise shape, form, or figure does this residue of sublimity take in the fictions that follow from it—and that leave it in ruins?This book explo...
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| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Preface
- Introduction
- PART ONE / KAFKA
- 1. Kafka’s Teeth
- 2. The Ecstasy of Judgment
- 3. Embodied Violence and the Leap from the Law
- 4. Degradation of the Sublime
- PART TWO / BLANCHOT
- 5. Pointed Instants
- 6. The Shell and the Mask
- 7. The Dead Look
- PART THREE / BECKETT
- 8. Beckett’s Voices and the Paradox of Expression
- 9. Company, But Not Enough
- Conclusion. Speech Unredeemed
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index