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Languages of the unsayable : the play of negativity in literature and literary theory

Title
Languages of the unsayable : the play of negativity in literature and literary theory / edited by Sanford Budick and Wolfgang Iser.
Publication
Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, 1996, c1987.

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Additional Authors
  • Budick, Sanford, 1942-
  • Iser, Wolfgang.
Description
xxi, 394 p.; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Irvine studies in the humanities
Subject
  • Silence in literature
  • Negativity (Philosophy) in literature
  • Literature, Modern > Philosophy
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • How to avoid speaking : denials / Jacques Derrida -- Endings, continued / Frank Kermode -- Heidegger's transcendent nothing / Gabriel Motzkin -- Disappeared : Heidegger and the emancipation of language / Gerald L. Bruns -- Adorno's "negative aesthetics"? / Hendrik Birus -- Samuel Beckett's figural evasions / Shira Wolosky -- On the negativity of modern poetry : Friedrich, Baudelaire, and the critical tradition / Jonathan Culler -- Patterns of negativity in Paul Celan's The trumpet place / Stéphane Moses -- The discourse of a figure : Blake's "Speak silence" in literary history / Geoffrey H. Hartman -- Under the sign of loss : a reading of Faulkner's The sound and the fury / Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan -- Dislocations : the crisis of allegory in the Romance of the rose / Jon Whitman.
  • Some words in George Eliot : nullify, neutral, numb, number / Neil Hertz -- Tradition in the space of negativity / Sanford Budick -- The play of the text / Wolfgang Iser -- Naughty orators : negation of voice in Gaslight / Stanley Cavell.
Call Number
JFE 96-17253
ISBN
0804724830
OCLC
34671870
Title
Languages of the unsayable : the play of negativity in literature and literary theory / edited by Sanford Budick and Wolfgang Iser.
Imprint
Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, 1996, c1987.
Series
Irvine studies in the humanities
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Budick, Sanford, 1942-
Iser, Wolfgang.
Research Call Number
JFE 96-17253
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