Omissions are not accidents : modern apophaticism from Henry James to Jacques Derrida / / Christopher J. Knight

• Autore: Knight Christopher J. <1952->
• Pubblicazione: Toronto, [Canada] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2010; ©2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (278 p.)
• Disciplina: 809/.93384
• Soggetto topico: Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism; Negativity (Philosophy) in literature; Silence in literature
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface -- Henry James ('The middle years') -- Ludwig Wittgenstein (Tractatus logico-philosophicus) -- Gertrude Stein (Tender buttons) -- Paul Cezanne and Rainer Maria Rilke (Letters on Cezanne) -- Ernest Hemingway (In our time) -- Martin Heidegger ('What is metaphysics?') -- T.S. Eliot -- Virginia Woolf -- Samuel Beckett (Watt) -- Mark Rothko -- William Gaddis (The recognitions) -- Vladimir Nabokov (Speak, memory) -- Theodor Adorno (Negative dialectics) -- Susan Sontag ('The aesthetics of silence') -- Penelope Fitzgerald (The blue flower) -- Krzysztof Kieślovski (The double life of Veronique) -- Frank Kermode (The genesis of secrecy) -- Jacques Derrida ('How to avoid speaking : denials') -- Epilogue.
• Sommario/riassunto: In Omissions Are Not Accidents, Christopher J. Knight analyzes the widespread apophaticism in texts from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century.
• Titolo autorizzato: Omissions are not accidents
• ISBN: 1-4426-8571-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808104303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II