Автор: Vincent van Bever Donker Название: Recognition & Ethics in World Literature: Religion, Violence & the Human ISBN: 3838208471 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783838208473 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 79940.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This is a critical comparative study of contemporary world literature, focused on the importance of the ethical turn (or return) in literary theory. It considers the shape and development of the ethical engagement of the novels of Amitav Ghosh, Chimamanda Adichie, Caryl Phillips, Kazuo Ishiguro, Zadie Smith, and JM Coetzee, exploring the overlaps and divergences between LevinasianDerridean and Aristotelian ethics as they are brought to bear on literature. The characters` recognitions and emotional responses in these texts are integral to the unfolding of their ethical concerns, and the ethics thus explored is often marked by the complexity and impurity characteristic of the tragic. A view of recognition is advanced that shifts it from the more usual political understanding in the field towards seeing it as a formal device used to unfold an ethical knowledge peculiar to fictional narrative, and particularly suitable for the concerns of world literature authors in its interconnection of the universal and the particular -- a binary that has been crucial in post-colonialism and remains important for the wider field of world literature. The analysis unfolds with a focus on three broad ethical themes -- religion, the memory of violence, and the human-eliciting the novelists` contributions to these debates through the investigation of the functioning of moments of recognition in their novels.
Автор: Bever Edward Название: Magic in the Modern World ISBN: 0271077786 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780271077789 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 32140.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A collection of essays on various aspects of the position of magic in the modern world. Essays explore the ways in which modernity has been defined in explicit opposition to magic and superstition, and the ways in which modern proponents of magic have worked to legitimate their practices.
