LEADER 04121nam 2200685 450 001 9910458934103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-8571-9 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442685710 035 $a(CKB)2560000000055884 035 $a(OCoLC)759157441 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10442667 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000647008 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11380990 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000647008 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10589414 035 $a(PQKB)10166981 035 $a(CEL)433675 035 $a(CaBNvSL)slc00226190 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3272878 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672420 035 $a(DE-B1597)465184 035 $a(OCoLC)1013963708 035 $a(OCoLC)944177042 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442685710 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672420 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11258087 035 $a(OCoLC)958572380 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000055884 100 $a20160923h20102010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOmissions are not accidents $emodern apophaticism from Henry James to Jacques Derrida /$fChristopher J. Knight 210 1$aToronto, [Canada] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2010. 210 4$d©2010 215 $a1 online resource (278 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-4426-4050-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tI. Preface -- $tII. Henry James ('The Middle Years') -- $tIII. Ludwig Wittgenstein (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus) -- $tIV. Gertrude Stein (Tender Buttons) -- $tV. Paul Cézanne and Rainer Maria Rilke (Letters on Cézanne) -- $tVI. Ernest Hemingway (In Our Time) -- $tVII. Martin Heidegger ('What Is Metaphysics?') -- $tVIII. T.S. Eliot -- $tIX. Virginia Woolf -- $tX. Samuel Beckett (Watt) -- $tXI. Mark Rothko -- $tXII. William Gaddis (The Recognitions) -- $tXIII. Vladimir Nabokov (Speak, Memory) -- $tXIV. Theodor Adorno (Negative Dialectics) -- $tXV. Susan Sontag ('The Aesthetics of Silence') -- $tXVI. Penelope Fitzgerald (The Blue Flower) -- $tXVII. Krzysztof Kie?lowski (The Double Life of Véronique) -- $tXVIII. Frank Kermode (The Genesis of Secrecy) -- $tXIX. Jacques Derrida ('How to Avoid Speaking: Denials') -- $tXX. Epilogue -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aLudwig Wittgenstein wrote in a 1919 letter that his work 'consists of two parts: the one presented here plus all that I have not written. And it is precisely this second part which is the important one.' In Omissions Are Not Accidents, Christopher J. Knight analyzes the widespread apophaticism in texts from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century. In theology, apophaticism refers to the idea that what we cannot say about God is more fundamental than what we can; in literature and other works of art, Knight argues, it functions as a way of continuing to speak and write even in the face of the unspeakable.Probing the works of authors and intellectuals from Henry James to Jacques Derrida, Knight suggests that we no longer trust ourselves to speak about experience's most numinous aspect, and explores the consequences of the modern artist's tendency to imagine his or her work as incomplete. Ambitious in the scope of its investigation, Omissions Are Not Accidents lends insight into an important modern phenomenon. 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNegativity (Philosophy) in literature 606 $aSilence in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNegativity (Philosophy) in literature. 615 0$aSilence in literature. 676 $a809/.93384 700 $aKnight$b Christopher J.$f1952-$0896917 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458934103321 996 $aOmissions are not accidents$92004129 997 $aUNINA