Apocalyptic futures [electronic resource] : marked bodies and the violence of the text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee / Russell Samolsky.

By: Samolsky, RussellContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Fordham University Press, 2011Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 237 p. : illISBN: 9780823241514 (electronic bk.)Other title: Marked bodies and the violence of the text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee | Violence of the text in Kafka, Conrad, and CoetzeeSubject(s): 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 literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 809.3/04 LOC classification: PN3347 | .S26 2011Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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