Omissions are not accidents [electronic resource] : modern apophaticism from Henry James to Jacques Derrida / Christopher J. Knight.
Publication details: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, c2010 2010)Description: 1 online resource (x, 267 p.)ISBN:- 9781442685710 (electronic bk.)
- 1442685719 (electronic bk.)
- Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Negativity (Philosophy) in literature
- Silence in literature
- Littérature -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Négativité (Philosophie) dans la littérature
- Silence dans la littérature
- PHILOSOPHY / Religious
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
- 809/.93384
- PN3347 .K58 2010eb
Includes bibliographical references 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.
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