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