Language and Negativity in European Modernism
Author:   Shane Weller (University of Kent, Canterbury)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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Pages:   280
Publication Date:   22 November 2018
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Author:   Shane Weller (University of Kent, Canterbury)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.570kg
ISBN:  

9781108475020


ISBN 10:   1108475027
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   22 November 2018
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Introduction; 1. The language crisis: from Mallarmé to Mauthner; 2. Great destructive work: The interwar years; 3. Performing the negative: Franz Kafka; 4. Humanity in ruins: Samuel Beckett; 5. Writing the disaster: Maurice Blanchot; 6. Through the thousand darknesses: Paul Celan; 7. Unconditional negativity: W. G. Sebald; 8. Unwording, terminal and interminable; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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'… this book deals with a crucial aspect of modernist literature, and the overall view it offers of this historical progression is accompanied by close and solid analysis of texts.' Forum for Modern Language Studies


'... this book deals with a crucial aspect of modernist literature, and the overall view it offers of this historical progression is accompanied by close and solid analysis of texts.' Forum for Modern Language Studies


'... this book deals with a crucial aspect of modernist literature, and the overall view it offers of this historical progression is accompanied by close and solid analysis of texts.' Forum for Modern Language Studies '... this book deals with a crucial aspect of modernist literature, and the overall view it offers of this historical progression is accompanied by close and solid analysis of texts.' Forum for Modern Language Studies


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Shane Weller is Professor of Comparative Literature and Co-Director of the Centre for Modern European Literature at the University of Kent, Canterbury. His publications include A Taste for the Negative: Beckett and Nihilism (2004), Beckett, Literature and the Ethics of Alterity (2006), Literature, Philosophy, Nihilism: The Uncanniest of Guests (2008), and Modernism and Nihilism (2011). He is also the co-author (with Dirk Van Hulle) of two volumes in the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project series: The Making of Samuel Beckett's 'L'Innommable'/'The Unnamable' (2014) and The Making of Samuel Beckett's 'Fin de partie'/'Endgame' (2018).

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