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050 00 $aPN56.M54$bW45 2019
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100 1 $aWeller, Shane,$eauthor.
245 10 $aLanguage and negativity in European modernism :$btoward a literature of the unword /$cShane Weller.
264 1 $aCambridge, United Kingdom ;$aNew York, NY :$bCambridge University Press,$c2019.
300 $avi, 285 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 $a"This book charts the history of a distinct strain of European literary modernism that emerged out of a radical re-engagement with late nineteenth-century language scepticism. Focusing first on the literary and philosophical strands of this language- sceptical tradition, the book proceeds to trace the various forms of linguistic negativism deployed by European writers in the interwar and post-war years, including Franz Kafka, Georges Bataille, Samuel Beckett, Maurice Blanchot, Paul Celan, and W. G. Sebald. Through close analyses of these and other writers' attempts to capture an 'unspeakable' experience, Language and Negativity in European Modernism explores the remarkable literary attempt to deploy the negative potentialities of language in order to articulate an experience of what, shortly after the Second World War, Beckett described as a vision of 'humanity in ruins'"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe 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.
650 0 $aEuropean literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aModernism (Literature)$zEurope.
650 0 $aNegativity (Philosophy) in literature.
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650 7 $aModernism (Literature)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01024455
650 7 $aNegativity (Philosophy) in literature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01035506
651 7 $aEurope.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01245064
648 7 $a1900-1999$2fast
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411635
852 00 $bglx$hPN56.M54$iW45 2019