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

• Main Author: Gould, Thomas (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: 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:...

Table of Contents:

• 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.