Language and negativity in European modernism / Shane Weller.
"This book charts the history of a distinct strain of European literary modernism that emerged out of a radical re-engagement with late nineteenth-century language scepticism. Focusing first on the literary and philosophical strands of this language- sceptical tradition, the book proceeds to tr...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
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2018.
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Table of Contents:
- The language crisis: from Mallarme to Mauthner
- Great destructive work: the interwar years
- Performing the negative: Franz Kafka
- Humanity in ruins: Samuel Beckett
- Writing the disaster: Maurice Blanchot
- Through the thousand darknesses: Paul Celan
- Unconditional negativity: W.G. Sebald
- Unwording, terminal and interminable.