Apocalyptic futures marked bodies and the violence of the text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee /

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Autore principale:	Samolsky, Russell
Ente Autore:	ebrary, Inc
Natura:	Elettronico eBook
Lingua:	inglese
Pubblicazione:	New York : Fordham University Press, 2011.
Edizione:	1st ed.
Soggetti:	Kafka, Franz, > 1883-1924 > Criticism and interpretation. Conrad, Joseph, > 1857-1924 > Criticism and interpretation. Coetzee, J. M., > 1940- > Criticism and interpretation. Spiegelman, Art > Criticism and interpretation. Fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. Ethics in literature. Apocalyptic literature. Prophecy in literature. Violence in literature. Mimesis in literature. Electronic books.
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Sommario:

Introduction: writing violence : marked bodies and retroactive signs
Metaleptic machines : Kafka, Kabbalah, Shoah
Kafka and Shoah
Kafka and Kabbalah
Inscriptional machines
Apocalyptic futures : Heart of darkness, embodiment, and African genocide
Heart of darkness and African genocide
The genealogy of apocalypse
Delayed decodings
Marlow and messianism
The body in ruins : torture, allegory, and materiality in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the barbarians
The politics of the eternal present
Torture and allegory
The body in ruins
The materiality of the letter
Mourning the bones
Coda : the time of inscription: Maus and the apocalypse of number.

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