“The rest should be silence”
Blanchot, the impossibility of silence, and prosopopeial form
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20156028 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mike Marais (0000-0001-6794-3976, Zuid-Afrikaans Hospital, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 182-195 |
| Publication date | 2001-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Literary Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0256-4718 • E-ISSN: 1753-5387 |
| Publisher | Unisa Press (PUBLISHER • ZA) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02564710108530283 |
| OpenAlex | W2045878171 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
In this paper, I explore the idea of prosopopeial form in fiction writing by drawing on Maurice Blanchot's thought on the literary text's relation to the absolute otherness of the il y a, a relation which means that while the text is in the world, it is not of the world. I argue that some fictional texts evince a strong awareness of their foundation in the il y a and that this awareness invests them with prosopopeial form, that is, a form which foregrounds the failure of presence and thereby enables the literary text to respond to that which is other than literary form. I examine Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness ([1902]1974) as a novel which is prosopopeial in its performance of its coming into being
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Impossibility · Literature · Physics · Political science · Silence · Computer Science · French Literature and Criticism · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |