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The Resource Apocalyptic futures : marked bodies and the violence of the text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee, Russell Samolsky

Apocalyptic futures : marked bodies and the violence of the text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee, Russell Samolsky

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Apocalyptic futures : marked bodies and the violence of the text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee
Title
Apocalyptic futures
Title remainder
marked bodies and the violence of the text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee
Statement of responsibility
Russell Samolsky
Title variation
  • Marked bodies and the violence of the text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee
  • Violence of the text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee
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Language
eng
Summary
In this book, the author argues that certain modern literary texts have apocalyptic futures. Rather than claim that great writers have clairvoyant powers, he examines the ways in which a text incorporates an apocalyptic event into its future reception. He is thus concerned with the way in which apocalyptic works solicit their future receptions. Apocalyptic Futures also sets out to articulate a new theory and textual practice of the relation between literary reception and embodiment. Deploying the double register of "marks" to show how a text both codes and targets mutilated bodies, the author focuses on how these bodies are incorporated into texts by Kafka, Conrad, Coetzee, and Spiegelman. Situating "In the Penal Colony" in relation to the Holocaust, Heart of Darkness to the Rwandan genocide, and Waiting for the Barbarians to the revelations of torture in apartheid South Africa and contemporary Iraq, the author argues for the ethical and political importance of reading these literary works' "apocalyptic futures" in our own urgent and perilous situations. The book concludes with a reading of Spiegelman's Maus that offers a messianic counter-time to the law of apocalyptic incorporation
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Samolsky, Russell
Dewey number
809.3/04
Index
no index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
dictionaries
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  • Kafka, Franz
  • Conrad, Joseph
  • Coetzee, J. M
  • Spiegelman, Art
  • Fiction
  • Ethics in literature
  • Apocalyptic literature
  • Prophecy in literature
  • Violence in literature
  • Mimesis in literature
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adult
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Apocalyptic futures : marked bodies and the violence of the text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee, Russell Samolsky
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online resource
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multicolored
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text
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  • txt
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rdacontent.
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MWT11837432
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unknown
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1 online resource.
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  • online
  • electronic
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Digital content provided by hoopla
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9780823234813
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computer
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rdamedia.
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  • c
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MWT11837432
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remote
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11837432
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Mode of access: World Wide Web
Label
Apocalyptic futures : marked bodies and the violence of the text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee, Russell Samolsky
Link
Publication
Distribution
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier.
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent.
Control code
MWT11837432
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource.
Form of item
  • online
  • electronic
Governing access note
Digital content provided by hoopla
Isbn
9780823234813
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia.
Media type code
  • c
Publisher number
MWT11837432
Specific material designation
remote
Stock number
11837432
System details
Mode of access: World Wide Web

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