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Omissions are not accidents : modern apophaticism from Henry James to Jacques Derrida / Christopher J. Knight.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (x, 267 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781442685710
  • 1442685719
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Omissions are not accidents.DDC classification:
  • 809/.93384
LOC classification:
  • PN3347 .K58 2010eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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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.
Summary: In Omissions Are Not Accidents, Christopher J. Knight analyzes the widespread apophaticism in texts from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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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.