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

William S. Allen is an independent scholar who received his PhD from the University of Warwick, England.

Examines poetic language in the work of Heidegger, Hölderlin and Blanchot.

Acknowledgments     ix
Abbreviations     xi
Introduction     1
The Mark of a Poem
Repeat: The Experience of Poetic Language     25
The Turning of Logos     30
Saying the Same     38
The Limit of Writing     44
Again, Anew     52
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
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
The Repetition of Language
Suspending: The Translation of Tragedy in Holderlin's Essays     123
The Chiasmic Ground of Empedocles     128
The Caesura of Oedipus     134
The Eccentricity of Antigone     142
The Rhythm of Dysmoron     147
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
Fragmenting: L'iter-rature of Relation     189
"Without return"     193
...     205
"Never repeat"     208
(Refrain)     212
Notes     217
Index     235