Languages of the Unsayable: The Play of Negativity in Literature and Literary Theory [Inscribed and signed]
ND. Hardcover. XXI, [3], 394pp. Original printed dust-jacket over green cloth with white lettering on spine. Free front endpaper inscribed and signed "Sandy" (short fof Sanford) Budick. This remarkable work includes essays by the editors, Sanford Budick and Wolfgang Iser, as well as by Stanley Cavell, Jonathan Culler, Geoffrey Hartman, Frank Kermode, and others. Approaching the unsayable from their own disciplines, the contributors attempt to grasp different modes of negativity that are in play with one another. The topics of the essays range from Homer and medieval allegory to Samuel Beckett, from Heidegger to American films. Moderate creasing and sunning along edges of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket in overall good, binding and interior in very good condition. g. Item #33436
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