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Languages of the unsayable : the play of negativity in literature and literary theory / edited by Sanford Budick and Wolfgang Iser.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Irvine studies in the humanitiesPublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, 1996.Description: xxi, 394 p. : 1 ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0804724830 (alk. paper)
  • 9780804724838 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN56 .S55  L36 1996
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.
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Bishop Okullu Memorial Library (Limuru Campus) General Circulation Non-fiction PN56 .S55 L36 1996 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 066457
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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.

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