Language Mysticism: The Negative Way of Language in Eliot, Beckett, and Celan

Author/Contributor(s):	Wolosky, Shira
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Date:	12/01/1995
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

This book examines an ambivalence to language deeply rooted in Western culture, as seen in the writings of Eliot, Beckett, and Celan, and in the context of age-old metaphysical biases against body, history, time, and the mundane as these continue to shape our system of values and moral commitments..