What Is There to Say? by Smock, Ann

What Is There to Say? (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780803222380)

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What Is There to Say? by Smock, Ann

What Is There to Say?

$19.95
What Is There to Say? by Smock, Ann

What Is There to Say?

$19.95
Format: Paperback
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Herman Melville's Bartleby, asked to account for himself, "would prefer not to." Tongue-tied Billy Budd, urged to defend his innocence, responds with a murderous blow. The Bavard, by Louis-René des Forêts, concerns a man whose power to speak is replaced by an inability to shut up. In these and other literary examples a call for speech throws the possibility of speaking into doubt. What Is There to Say? uses the ideas of Maurice Blanchot to clarify puzzling works by Melville, des Forêts, and Beckett. Ann Smock's energetic readings of texts about talking, listening, and recording cast an equally welcome light on Blanchot's paradoxical thought.

Author: Ann Smock
ISBN-10: 0803222386
ISBN-13: 9780803222380
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2007
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.44d
By Ann Smock
By Ann Smock
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Ann Smock is a professor of French at the University of California, Berkeley and the author of Double Dealing. She translated Maurice Blanchot's The Space of Literature and The Writing of the Disaster, as well as Sarah Kofman's Rue Ordener, Rue Labat, all published by the University of Nebraska Press.

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