Omissions are not accidents : modern apophaticism from Henry James to Jacques Derrida /

Omissions are not accidents : modern apophaticism from Henry James to Jacques Derrida /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Knight, Christopher J., 1952- author.
Imprint:	Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2010] ©2010
Description:	1 online resource (x, 267 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Negativity (Philosophy) in literature. Silence in literature. Literature, Modern. Negativity (Philosophy) in literature. Silence in literature. Literary criticism. Literary criticism. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11280032

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ISBN:	9781442685710 1442685719 9781442640504 1442640502
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	In Omissions Are Not Accidents, Christopher J. Knight analyzes the widespread apophaticism in texts from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century.
Other form:	Print version: Knight, Christopher J., 1952- Omissions are not accidents. Toronto ; Buffalo, NY : University of Toronto Press, ©2010 9781442640504

Table of Contents:

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.