Omissions are not accidents modern apophaticism from Henry James to Jacques Derrida /

Knight, Christopher J., 1952-

Omissions are not accidents modern apophaticism from Henry James to Jacques Derrida / Christopher J. Knight. - Toronto [Ont. : University of Toronto Press, (c)2010. (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2010). - 1 online resource (x, 267 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Preface -- Henry James ('The middle years') -- Ludwig Wittgenstein (Tractatus logico-philosophicus) -- Gertrude Stein (Tender buttons) -- Paul Cézanne and Rainer Maria Rilke (Letters on Cézanne) -- 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 Véronique) -- Frank Kermode (The genesis of secrecy) -- Jacques Derrida ('How to avoid speaking : denials') -- Epilogue.



9781442685710




Literature, Modern--History and criticism.--20th century
Negativity (Philosophy) in literature.
Silence in literature.


Electronic Books.

PN3347 / .O457 2010