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Omissions are not Accidents Modern Apophaticism from Henry James to Jacques Derrida Christopher J. Knight

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In Omissions Are Not Accidents, Christopher J. Knight analyzes the widespread apophaticism in texts from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century.

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Online Access: Full Text (via De Gruyter)
Main Author: Knight, Christopher J. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto University of Toronto Press 2016, [2016]
Subjects:
Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism.
Negativity (Philosophy) in literature.
Silence in literature.
Literature, Modern
Negativity (Philosophy) in literature
Silence in literature
1900-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • I. Preface
  • II. Henry James ('The Middle Years')
  • III. Ludwig Wittgenstein (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus)
  • IV. Gertrude Stein (Tender Buttons)
  • V. Paul Cézanne and Rainer Maria Rilke (Letters on Cézanne)
  • VI. Ernest Hemingway (In Our Time)
  • VII. Martin Heidegger ('What Is Metaphysics?')
  • VIII. T.S. Eliot
  • IX. Virginia Woolf
  • X. Samuel Beckett (Watt)
  • XI. Mark Rothko
  • XII. William Gaddis (The Recognitions)
  • XIII. Vladimir Nabokov (Speak, Memory)
  • XIV. Theodor Adorno (Negative Dialectics)
  • XV. Susan Sontag ('The Aesthetics of Silence')
  • XVI. Penelope Fitzgerald (The Blue Flower)
  • XVII. Krzysztof Kieślowski (The Double Life of Véronique)
  • XVIII. Frank Kermode (The Genesis of Secrecy)
  • XIX. Jacques Derrida ('How to Avoid Speaking: Denials')
  • XX. Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Index

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