Elisabeth Marie Loevlie

Literary Silences in Pascal, Rousseau, and Beckett

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Central to this theoretical endeavour are thinkers like Derrida, Deleuze, Gadamer, and Vattimo (among several others). The theoretical understanding of silence permits an effective methodology for reading literary silence. Notions of repetition, the aporia and the implosion, which are developed in reference to Kierkegaard and Bataille, describe textual strategies of literary silence and structure the readings. Finally, the reading of literary silence has its point of reference in writers like Mallarme, Blanchot, and Beckett. It is their texts that have taught us to become topological readers, to move in and out of texts' movements; they have shown us how the literary expression is irreducible to linear, meaning oriented language. As readers of such texts we have been prepared to read the dynamics of the unsayable, and finally to start discerning the silences of the literary.

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To explore literary silence is to explore the relationships between literary texts and the silence of the ineffable. Philosophical and critical accounts tend to operate with a dualistic understanding of silence as the negative other of text. This study, however, seeks to place silence within the literary text. Central to this theoretical endeavor are thinkers like Blanchot, Derrida, Gadamer and Vattimo, and the result is a fundamental challenge to our ideas of silence and text.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 146mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 448g
• ISBN-13: 9780199266364
• ISBN-10: 0199266360
• Artikelnr.: 21534239

Autorenporträt

(University of Oslo, Norway)

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Moving towards literary silence
2: Thinking literary silence - a theoretical exploration
3: The behaviour of literary silence: repetition, aporia, implosion
4: Literary silence in Pascal's Pensées
5: Literary silence in Rousseau's Rêveries
Interlude: From Rousseau to Beckett - the opening of the 'third mode' of language
6: Literary silence in Beckett's trilogy
Conclusion
Bibliography