Violence of Reading

Literature and Philosophy at the Threshold of Pain

AvDominik Zechner

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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The Violence of Reading: Literature and Philosophy at the Threshold of Pain expounds the scene of reading as one that produces an overwhelmed body exposed to uncontainable forms of violence. The book argues that the act of reading induces a representational instability that causes the referential function of language to collapse.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-04-27
Mått:148 x 210 x 13 mm
Vikt:296 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:212
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783031531941

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Dominik Zechner served as the Artemis A.W. and Martha Joukowsky Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University’s Pembroke Center and is currently an Assistant Professor at Rutgers University.Zechner is the co-editor of Forces of Education: Walter Benjamin and the Politics of Pedagogy (Bloomsbury, 2023) and Thresholds, Encounters: Paul Celan and the Claim of Philology (SUNY, 2023). He is also the co-editor of a special issue of parallax (“Initiations: The Pitfalls of Beginning,” vol. 28.3, 2022) and the editor of a special issue of Modern Language Notes (“What is a Prize?” vol. 131.5, 2016).

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction: Violence and the Text.- 2. Cry Me a Reader.- 3. The Promise of Oblivion.- 4. Transcendental Masochism.- 5. Sublime Sufferings.- 6. Sticks and Stones.