The imperative to write : destitutions of the sublime in Kafka, Blanchot, and Beckett

Publication Data

• Title The imperative to write : destitutions of the sublime in Kafka, Blanchot, and Beckett
• Author Jeff Fort
• Publisher Fordham University Press
• Publication date 2014
• Publication location New York
• Language English

Contents

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.

Topics

• Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 :: Criticism and interpretation
• Blanchot, Maurice :: Criticism and interpretation
• Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 :: Criticism and interpretation
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The imperative to write : destitutions of the sublime in Kafka, Blanchot, and Beckett by Jeff Fort. ISBN 9780823254699. Published by Fordham University Press in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.