| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Suny series, literature . . . in theory |
| Contents |
Intro; Contents; Translatorsâ#x80;#x99; Note; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Practices of Language and Experience of Violence; I. Education; II. Inheritances; III. Discriminations; IV. Political Awakening; V. Preoccupat ion; VI. Love and Friendship; VII. Aggression; VIII. The Shoah; IX. Books; X. Literature and Phi losophy; XI. Corpus; 1. Self-Knowledge (A Reading of Kafkaâ#x80;#x99;s Diaries); I. Impossible Sel f-Knowledge; II. The Tribunal of Writ ing; 2. Impossible Anamnesis (Kafka and Derrida); I.; II.; 3. Shares of Singularity (Celan-Derrida); I. The Singularity of Dates; II. The Time of the Other |
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III. Circumcision of the Word4. On a Constellation (Levinas, Derrida, Blanchot, Readers of Celan); I.; II.; III.; IV.; V.; 5. â#x80;#x9C;that tumor in the memoryâ#x80;#x9D; (Levinas); I.; II.; III.; 6. On Shame (Levinas); I.; II.; III.; 7. A â#x80;#x9C;balancing poleâ#x80;#x9D; over the Abyss (Victor Klemperer and the Language of the Third Reich); I.; II.; III.; IV.; 8. Duped by Violence? (A Reading of Sartre); I.; II.; III.; IV.; 9. â#x80;#x9C;the spirit of storytellingâ#x80;#x9D; (A Reading of Kertész); I.; II.; III.; 10. â#x80;#x9C;Survivingâ#x80;#x9D;: The Novel (A Reading of Kertészâ#x80;#x99;s Galley Boat-Log); I.; II.; III.; IV.; V |
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11. â#x80;#x9C;a profound feeling of protestâ#x80;#x9D; (A Reading of Singer)I.; II.; III.; 12. â#x80;#x9C;And nobody here knows who I amâ#x80;#x9D; (Emigrant Voices: Arendt, Sebald, Perec); I.; II.; III.; 13. On Fear of Dying (Three Russian Stories); I.; II.; III.; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Notes |
Originally published: La vocation de l'écriture. Paris : Odile Jacob, 2014 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Violence -- Philosophy
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Violence in literature.
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Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- Themes, motives
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Language and languages -- Philosophy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Language and languages -- Philosophy.
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Literature, Modern -- Themes, motives.
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Violence in literature.
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Violence -- Philosophy.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cross, Donald J. S., translator
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Williams, Tyler M., translator
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| LC no. |
2018002577 |
| ISBN |
9781438469621 |
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1438469624 |
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