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Rapture - Literature, Secrecy, Addiction (Hardcover, New)
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Rapture - Literature, Secrecy, Addiction (Hardcover, New)
Series: Critical Inventions
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'Rapture' The act of seizing or carrying off as prey or plunder;
the act of carrying or being carried; and the expression of ecstasy
or euphoria in words. The concept of rapture in literature
navigates along a specific trajectory, from rapine status through
to 'being carried (away)'. This book identifies the apparent
impossibility of recounting such 'rapturous states', and of fixing
them in words or in time within cultural expectations, while
questioning what we can do with those who are 'enrapt', and what we
do inside ourselves with reading moments of rapture. ... Rapture:
Literature, Secrecy, Addiction engages with the 'states of
heightened awareness', and seeks to connect with the notion of
addiction as an alternative to the moral law. Punter deals with
notions of writing as itself a kind of 'seizure', writing as a
'fit', in the works of Blake, Holderlin, Novalis, Nietzsche,
Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Genet, and Ballard. 'Writing it down' - the
process of returning from states of exaltation to find oneself
writing in often bleak locations, underlines the relationship
between rapture and literature. The author concludes that the very
possibility of communication and interpretation is radically open
to doubt. The addict-writer becomes representative of the dialectic
of writing as an act of communication; an act which is tragically
doomed from the outset.
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