TY - BOOK AU - Budick, Sanford, AU - Iser, Wolfgang. TI - Languages of the unsayable : : the play of negativity in literature and literary theory SN - 0804724830 (alk. paper) AV - PN56 .S55 L36 1996 PY - 1996/// CY - New York PB - Columbia University Press KW - Silence in literature. KW - Literature KW - History and criticism KW - Theory, etc. KW - Negativity (Philosophy) in literature. KW - Literature, Modern KW - Philosophy. N1 - Includes bibliographies and index.; 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. ER -