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050 4 _aPN56.S7416
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100 1 _aFort, Jeff,
_d1966-
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245 1 4 _aThe imperative to write :
_bdestitutions of the sublime in Kafka, Blanchot, and Beckett /
_cJeff Fort.
250 _aFirst edition.
260 _aNew York :
_bFordham University Press,
_c2014.
264 4 _c�2014
300 _a1 online resource
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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347 _adata file
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction -- 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'arret 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.
520 _aIs 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 itand that leave it in ruins? This book explores these questions through readings of three authors who bear witness to an ambiguous exigency: writing as a demanding and exclusive task, at odds with life, but also a mere compulsion, a drive without end or reason, even a kind of torture. If Kafka, Blanchot, and Beckett mimic a sublime vocation i.
533 _aElectronic reproduction
600 1 0 _aBeckett, Samuel,
_d1906-1989
_xCriticism and interpretation.
_934266
600 1 0 _aBlanchot, Maurice
_xCriticism and interpretation.
_934267
600 1 0 _aKafka, Franz,
_d1883-1924
_xCriticism and interpretation.
_934268
600 1 7 _aBeckett, Samuel,
_d1906-1989.
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600 1 7 _aBlanchot, Maurice.
_2fast
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600 1 7 _aKafka, Franz,
_d1883-1924.
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650 0 _aSublime, The, in literature.
_934272
650 7 _aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
_xLiterary.
_2bisacsh
_934273
650 7 _aPHILOSOPHY
_xEthics & Moral Philosophy.
_2bisacsh
_934274
650 7 _aSublime, The, in literature.
_2fast
_934272
655 4 _aElectronic books.
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655 7 _aCriticism, interpretation, etc.
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776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aFort, Jeff, 1966-
_tImperative to write.
_bFirst edition.
_dNew York : Fordham University Press, 2014
_w(DLC) 2013030646
856 4 0 _3JSTOR (AUD Library eBook Collection) Connect to this title online
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