TY  - BOOK
AU  - Knight,Christopher J.
TI  - Omissions are not accidents: modern apophaticism from Henry James to Jacques Derrida 
SN  - 9781442685710
AV  - PN3347 .K58 2010eb
U1  - 809/.93384 
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - Toronto, Buffalo, London
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Literature, Modern
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Negativity (Philosophy) in literature
KW  - Silence in literature
KW  - Littérature
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Négativité (Philosophie) dans la littérature
KW  - Silence dans la littérature
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - Religious
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Literary
KW  - fast
KW  - Literary criticism
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Critiques littéraires
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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