Literary silences in Pascal, Rousseau, and Beckett
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.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
252 pages ; 23 cm
9780199266364, 0199266360
52860187
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 Pensees ; 5. Literary silence in Rousseau's Reveries ; Interlude: From Rousseau to Beckett - the opening of the 'third mode' of language ; 6. Literary silence in Beckett's trilogy ; Conclusion ; Bibliography