Marked Bodies and the Violence of the Text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee
by
Russell Samolsky
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
In this book, the author argues that certain modern literary texts have apocalyptic futures. Rather than claim that great writers have clairvoyant powers, he examines the ways in which a text incorporates an apocalyptic event into its future reception. He is thus concerned with the way in which apocalyptic...