TY  - BOOK
AU  - Andrew Slade
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Lyotard, Beckett, Duras, and the Postmodern Sublime
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1103958
N2  - This daring work argues that the traumas of the twentieth century form the backdrop of a subjectivity marked by the drive for survival, and that sublime figurations are the aesthetic marker of that drive. Hence, the works of Jean François Lyotard, Samuel Beckett, and Marguerite Duras can be understood only with reference to the postmodern conception of the sublime. The sublime becomes a central modality for bearing witness to the terrors of history and to the possibilities of writing in their wake. This book will be of special value to those concerned with aesthetic and literary theory, trauma theory, and postmodernism.
KW  - Lyotard, Jean-François, Psychisches Trauma, Das Erhabene, Duras, Marguerite, Philosophy and Literature /20th Century, Postmodernism, Beckett, Samuel
LA  - English
ER  -