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02833aam a2200409 i 4500 001 92836D1A462211E9A3F20F6897128E48 003 SILO 005 20190314012734 008 180907s2019 enk b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2018025046 020 $a 1108475027 020 $a 9781108475020 035 $a (OCoLC)1050362890 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d ERASA $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d YDX $d YUS $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e------ 050 00 $a PN56.M54 $b W45 2019 082 00 $a 809/.9112 $2 23 100 1 $a Weller, Shane, $e author. 245 10 $a Language and negativity in European modernism : $b toward a literature of the unword / $c Shane Weller. 264 1 $a Cambridge, United Kingdom ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2019. 300 $a vi, 285 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "This book charts the history of a distinct strain of European literary modernism that emerged out of a radical re-engagement with late nineteenth-century language scepticism. Focusing first on the literary and philosophical strands of this language- sceptical tradition, the book proceeds to trace the various forms of linguistic negativism deployed by European writers in the interwar and post-war years, including Franz Kafka, Georges Bataille, Samuel Beckett, Maurice Blanchot, Paul Celan, and W. G. Sebald. Through close analyses of these and other writers' attempts to capture an 'unspeakable' experience, Language and Negativity in European Modernism explores the remarkable literary attempt to deploy the negative potentialities of language in order to articulate an experience of what, shortly after the Second World War, Beckett described as a vision of 'humanity in ruins'"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-265) and index. 505 0 $a The language crisis: from Mallarme to Mauthner -- Great destructive work: the interwar years -- Performing the negative: Franz Kafka -- Humanity in ruins: Samuel Beckett -- Writing the disaster: Maurice Blanchot -- Through the thousand darknesses: Paul Celan -- Unconditional negativity: W.G. Sebald -- Unwording, terminal and interminable. 650 0 $a European literature $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Modernism (Literature) $z Europe. 650 0 $a Negativity (Philosophy) in literature. 650 7 $a European literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00916751 650 7 $a Modernism (Literature) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01024455 650 7 $a Negativity (Philosophy) in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01035506 651 7 $a Europe. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01245064 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191126012608.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=92836D1A462211E9A3F20F6897128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search