03557nam a22004575i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020003700100024003500137050001400172072001600186072002300202072001500225100008600240245012800326250001800454264007900472300004200551336002600593337002600619338003600645347002400681505017600705520178800881650003502669650003502704650003502739650002802774650003702802710003402839773002602873776003602899776003602935776003602971856004603007912001403053912001503067999001703082978-3-031-53192-7DE-He21320251030112012.0cr nn 008mamaa240426s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830315319279978-3-031-53192-77 a10.1007/978-3-031-53192-72doi 4aB790-5802 7aHPC2bicssc 7aPHI0310002bisacsh 7aQDH2thema1 aZechner, Dominik.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut97580614aThe Violence of Readingh[electronic resource] :bLiterature and Philosophy at the Threshold of Pain /cby Dominik Zechner.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aIX, 212 p. 1 illus.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 a1. 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.  a“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). 0aContinental Philosophy.966476 0aLiteraturexPhilosophy.96632214aContinental Philosophy.96647624aLiterary Theory.96178724aPhilosophy of Literature.9729932 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303153191008iPrinted edition:z978303153193408iPrinted edition:z978303153194140uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53192-7  aZDB-2-REP  aZDB-2-SXPR  c59405d59405