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Language and Negativity in European Modernism
Shane Weller
出版
Cambridge University Press
, 2019
主題
Fiction / War & Military
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory
Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century
Political Science / Political Ideologies / Fascism & Totalitarianism
ISBN
1108475027
9781108475020
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=FI1xDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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'.