The Imperative to Write: Destitutions of the Sublime in Kafka, Blanchot, and Beckett
Language: English
Published by Fordham University Press, 2014
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Pulpfiction Books, Vancouver, BC, CanadaPulpfiction Books
AbeBooks seller since May 7, 2015
Condition: Used - As new
US$ 25.00
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketItem description from seller
First edition, first printing. As new hardback in as new dust jacket, flawless and unmarked.
Seller Inventory # 010937
- Title
- The Imperative to Write: Destitutions of the Sublime in Kafka, Blanchot, and Beckett
- Author
- Fort, Jeff
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Publication year
- 2014
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- As New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0823254690
- ISBN 13
- 9780823254699
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
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?
This book explores these questions through readings of three authors who bear witness to an ambiguous exigency: writing as a demanding and exclusive task, at odds with life, but also a mere compulsion, a drive without end or reason, even a kind of torture. If Kafka, Blanchot, and Beckett mimic a sublime vocation in their extreme devotion to writing, they do so in full awareness that the trajectory it dictates leads not to metaphysical redemption but rather downward, into the uncanny element of fiction. As this book argues, the sublime has always been a deeply melancholy affair, even in its classical Kantian form, but it is in the attenuated speech of narrative voices progressively stripped of their resources and rewards that the true nature of this melancholy is revealed.
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author
"About the title" may belong to another edition of this title.
Pulpfiction Books
Vancouver, BC, Canada
AbeBooks seller since May 7, 2015
Shipping rates from Canada to U.S.A.
| Item | 10 to 20 business days | 5 to 12 business days |
|---|---|---|
| First item | US$ 16.50 | US$ 50.00 |
Payment methods
Store description
Pulpfiction Books is one of Western Canada's largest independent bookstores. We maintain a basic stock of approximately 100,000 titles in three different Vancouver neighborhood locations and most days see several hundred new books added to the shelves. In addition to full runs of reading copies by most major science fiction, fantasy, and mystery authors, we carry a wide assortment of contemporary fiction, literature, books on art, architecture, cultural studies, philosophy, science, music, travel writing, cookbooks, poetry, drama, and most other major subject fields. We travel regularly throughout North America, sourcing rare and hard-to-find titles. We buy books every day. No appointment is ever required to sell books to us. While the bulk of our purchases consists of recent trade and mass market fiction and nonfiction, we are always interested in purchasing antiquarian stock, particularly in the visual arts, architecture, and Northwest Coast art and literature. Our shop website, www.pfbvan.ca, gives more details about how we make our buying decisions. …
Specialty
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction, Vintage & Current Mass Market Paperbacks, Visual Art, Architecture and Photography, World Literature, Cultural Studies, Contemporary Fiction, Experimental Poetry & Poetics, Beat WritingSeller's business information
Pulpfiction Books
BC, Canada
Terms of sale
All of our titles are subject to prior sale. We guarantee our books' printing histories and physical condition to be accurately described in our online listings. If problems occur, we will promptly issue a cash refund for an item's full purchase price plus initial shipping charge, once the item(s) have been safely returned to us.
Shipping terms
Shipping costs are based on books weighing 2.2 LB, or 1 KG. If your book order is heavy or oversized, we may contact you to let you know extra shipping is required.