Literary Silences in Pascal, Rousseau, and BeckettTo 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. |
Contents
Introduction I | 1 |
Moving towards Literary Silence | 9 |
A Theoretical Exploration | 36 |
Repetition Aporia | 60 |
Literary Silence in Pascals Pensées | 99 |
Literary Silence in Rousseaus Rêveries | 139 |
The Opening of | 176 |
Literary Silence in Becketts Trilogy | 193 |
Conclusion | 231 |
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Common terms and phrases
aporetic dynamic aporia approach arises articulation atextual attempt Barcos Beckett Beckett's text becomes Blanchot c'est challenge choses cœur complex repetition concept critical defined Derrida Descartes describes destabilization dialogue différance discourse Dream of Silence dualistic dynamic of literary emerges everyday language experience exploration of literary expression fallen language fragment Gadamer Gadamer's guage heart hence hermeneutics Holocaust ibid implosion in-between indicates instant Kierkegaard L'Innommable linear literary silence literature Mallarmé Martin de Barcos Maurice Blanchot meaning Melzer ment Molloy move n'est negative non-symbolic object observation ontology Pascal Pensées play poetic language poetic text point fixe Port-Royal post-structuralist potential qu'il question rational reading reflection reified language relation relationship repeated reveals Rêveries rien Rousseau 1959a sacrifice Samuel Beckett sense signify simple repetition speak Stéphane Mallarmé subject-object suggests symbolic textual theoretical thereby thought tion topos tout transcend trilogy truth understanding of literary understanding of silence unsayable vérité voice wave movement writing
References to this book
Manifesto for Silence: Confronting the Politics and Culture of Noise Stuart Sim No preview available - 2007 |
Stylistics and Social Cognition Poetics and Linguistics Association. Conference Limited preview - 2007 |