Ellipsis: Of Poetry and the Experience of Language after Heidegger, Holderlin, and Blanchot

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Contents Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi Introduction 1 PART ONE: THE MARK OF A POEM 1 Repeat: The Experience of Poetic Language 25 The Turning of Logos 30 Saying the Same 38 The Limit of Writing 44 Again, Anew 52 2 Hiding: Figures of Cryptophilia in the Work of Art 59 Earth and Phusis 64 Draw-ing and Polemos 71 Poetry and Logos 79 Thesis: Stellen: Peras 85 3 Beyond: The Limits of the Word in Heidegger and Blanchot 91 The Reading of the Word 98 The Writing of the Word 108 The Position of the Word 115 vii PART TWO: THE REPETITION OF LANGUAGE 4 Suspending: The Translation of Tragedy in Hölderlin’s Essays 123 The Chiasmic Ground of Empedocles 128 The Caesura of Oedipus 134 The Eccentricity of Antigone 142 The Rhythm of Dysmoron 147 5 A Void: Writing and the Essence of Language 153 Bearing Out 158 The Pain of Language 162 Into the Space of Renunciation 170 In Palimpsest 182 6 Fragmenting: L’iter-rature of Relation 189 “Without return” 193 . . . 205 “Never repeat” 208 (Refrain) 212 Notes 217 Index 235 viii CONTENTS ...