Omissions are not Accidents: Modern Apophaticism from Henry James to Jacques Derrida

Christopher J. Knight

Published by University of Toronto Press 2010

Omissions are not Accidents

Modern Apophaticism from Henry James to Jacques Derrida

Christopher J. Knight

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442685710

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In Omissions Are Not Accidents, Christopher J. Knight analyzes the widespread apophaticism in texts from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century.

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Knight Christopher J. :

Christopher J. Knight is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Montana.

Christopher J. Knight is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Montana.

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Lou F. Caton:
’What Knight has given us will be of solid use for those readers still foggy about the advatages of the via negativa approach to literature.’

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
I. Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
II. Henry James (‘The Middle Years’) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	20
III. Ludwig Wittgenstein (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
IV. Gertrude Stein (Tender Buttons) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
V. Paul Cézanne and Rainer Maria Rilke (Letters on Cézanne) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
VI. Ernest Hemingway (In Our Time) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
VII. Martin Heidegger (‘What Is Metaphysics?’) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
VIII. T.S. Eliot Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
IX. Virginia Woolf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
X. Samuel Beckett (Watt) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
XI. Mark Rothko Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
XII. William Gaddis (The Recognitions) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
XIII. Vladimir Nabokov (Speak, Memory) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
XIV. Theodor Adorno (Negative Dialectics) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
XV. Susan Sontag (‘The Aesthetics of Silence’) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
XVI. Penelope Fitzgerald (The Blue Flower) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
XVII. Krzysztof Kieślowski (The Double Life of Véronique) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
XVIII. Frank Kermode (The Genesis of Secrecy) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
XIX. Jacques Derrida (‘How to Avoid Speaking: Denials’) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
XX. Epilogue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 272

eBook

Published: December 31, 2010
ISBN: 9781442685710