Language and negativity in European modernism : toward a literature of the unword / Shane Weller.
Language and negativity in European modernism : toward a literature of the unword / Shane Weller.
Language and negativity in European modernism : toward a literature of the unword / Shane Weller.
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
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G 2019/0695
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English
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vi, 285 pages ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
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England
Date Published
2019.
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"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 trace the various forms of linguistic negativism deployed...
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Language and negativity in European modernism : toward a literature of the unword / Shane Weller.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2019/0695
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74VKV08OGBVO
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1108475027
9781108475020 (hardback)
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809.9112
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991024227511402626
