03764nam a22005055i 4500 978-3-031-53192-7 DE-He213 20251030112012.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240426s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031531927 978-3-031-53192-7 10.1007/978-3-031-53192-7 doi B790-5802 HPC bicssc PHI031000 bisacsh QDH thema Zechner, Dominik. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 75806 The Violence of Reading [electronic resource] : Literature and Philosophy at the Threshold of Pain / by Dominik Zechner. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. IX, 212 p. 1 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 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. “This book is provocative, compelling, and beautifully written. Zechner has transformed the pain of reading into a very pleasurable experience.” —Elissa Marder (Emory University, USA) 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. This breakdown releases a type of “linguistic pain” (Scarry; Butler; Hamacher) that indicates a constitutive wounding of the reading body. The wound of language marks a rupture between linguistic reality and the phenomenal world. Exploring this rupture in various ways, the book brings together texts and genres from diverse traditions and offers close examinations of the rhetoric of masochism (Sacher-Masoch; Deleuze), the relation between reading and abuse (Nietzsche; Proust; Jelinek), the sublime experience of reading (Kant; Kafka; de Man), the “novel of the institution” (Musil; Campe), and literary suicide (Bachmann; Berryman; Okkervil River). 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). Continental Philosophy. 66476 Literature Philosophy. 66322 Continental Philosophy. 66476 Literary Theory. 61787 Philosophy of Literature. 72993 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031531910 Printed edition: 9783031531934 Printed edition: 9783031531941 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53192-7 ZDB-2-REP ZDB-2-SXPR 59405 59405