Silence in Modern Literature and Philosophy : Beckett, Barthes, Nancy, Stevens / by Thomas Gould.

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Silence in Modern Literature and Philosophy : Beckett, Barthes, Nancy, Stevens / by Thomas Gould.

9783319934792
3319934791

Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.

English

1 online resource (IX, 199 p. :) illustrations.

10.1007/978-3-319-93479-2. doi

PN770-PN779

809.04

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.

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