Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Budick, Sanford, 1942-
2. Iser, Wolfgang.

Description

1. xxi, 394 p.; 23 cm.

Series statement

1. Irvine studies in the humanities

Subject

1. Literature, Modern > Philosophy
2. Silence in literature
3. Negativity (Philosophy) in literature

Contents

1. 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.
2. 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

1. JFE 96-17253

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

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

Imprint

1. Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, 1996, c1987.

Series

1. Irvine studies in the humanities

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added author

1. Budick, Sanford, 1942-
2. Iser, Wolfgang.

ISBN

1. 0804724830

Research call number

1. JFE 96-17253