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The Poetics of Death
Beatrice Martina Guenther
其他書名
The Short Prose of Kleist and Balzac
出版State University of New York Press, 1996-07-12
主題Biography & Autobiography / Political
ISBN14384052009781438405209
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=0G1x_cC20rAC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Traditionally, the act of writing constitutes a challenge to the finality of death. Yet "writing" as a subject for literary texts has its own tradition of imagery whose rhetoric is associated with loss rather than immortality. The limit of death seems to force a more explicit analysis of the process of writing. Writers consider the impact of their work on their readers, or re-articulate the link between the written text and the subject it is meant to represent. Each writer constructs a "subversive" text. The conjunction of writing and death—besides highlighting or demystifying the creative act—leads in each case to a decidedly critical stance. Guenther examines how Kleist's and Balzac's representations of death bring with them a critical awareness that calls attention to the historical context in which the texts are produced.