TY  - BOOK
AU  - Samolsky,Russell
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Apocalyptic futures: marked bodies and the violence of the text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee 
AV  - PN3347 .S26 2011eb
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
KW  - local
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; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10530643
ER  -