Destitutions of the Sublime in Kafka, Blanchot, and Beckett
by
Jeff Fort
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Is writing haunted by a categorical imperative? Does the Kantian sublime continue to shape the writer’s vocation, even for twentieth-century authors? What precise shape, form, or figure does this residue of sublimity take in the fictions that follow from it—and that leave it in ruins?
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