David Punter Rapture: Literature All Books sku-10395485

In Rapture: Literature, Addiction, Secrecy, David Punter examines rapture as seizure, being carried away and ecstasy expressed in words. The paperback considers how literature recounts heightened states and whether they can be fixed in language or time within cultural expectations. It asks how readers respond to those who are enrapt and to their own moments of rapture while reading, and connects addiction with an alternative to moral law. Punter explores writing as a kind of seizure or fit in works by Blake, Hlderlin, Novalis, Nietzsche, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Genet and Ballard. He describes the return from exaltation to writing in bleak surroundings and ends by questioning whether communication and interpretation are possible, with the addict-writer embodying that tension. All Books; SKU sku-10395485.You may also like David Punter | All Books Gothic paperback | sku-400594.