Language and negativity in European modernism : toward a literature of the unword /

This book charts the history of a distinct strain of European literary modernism that emerged out of a radical reengagement 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...

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Main Author: Weller, Shane (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
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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.