TY - BOOK AU - Samolsky,Russell ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Apocalyptic futures: marked bodies and the violence of the text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee AV - PN3347 .S26 2011 U1 - 809.3/04 23 PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - Fordham University Press KW - Kafka, Franz, KW - Conrad, Joseph, KW - Coetzee, J. M., KW - Spiegelman, Art KW - Fiction KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Ethics in literature KW - Apocalyptic literature KW - Prophecy in literature KW - Violence in literature KW - Mimesis in literature KW - Electronic books N1 - 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; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3239594 ER -