Silence in Modern Literature and Philosophy Beckett, Barthes, Nancy, Stevens /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Gould, Thomas (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Literature, Modern-20th century.; Comparative literature.; European literature.; America-Literatures.; Aesthetics.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; Comparative Literature.; European Literature.; North American Literature.

 This book discusses the elusive centrality of silence in modern literature and philosophy, focusing on the writing and theory of Jean-Luc Nancy and Roland Barthes, the prose of Samuel Beckett, and the poetry of Wallace Stevens. It suggests that silence is best understood according to two categories: apophasis and reticence. Apophasis is associated with theology, and relates to a silence of ineffability and transcendence; reticence is associated with phenomenology, and relates to a silence of listenership and speechlessness. In a series of diverse though interrelated readings, the study examines figures of broken silence and silent voice in the prose of Samuel Beckett, the notion of shared silence in Jean-Luc Nancy and Roland Barthes, and ways in which the poetry of Wallace Stevens mounts lyrical negotiations with forms of unsayability and speechlessness. 

 1. Introduction -- 2. Apophasis and Reticence -- 3. Broken Silence: Samuel Beckett -- 4. Shared Silence - Jean Luc Nancy with Roland Barthes -- 5. Some Senses of Silence in Wallace Stevens -- 6. Coda: Eloquent Silence.