Literature and personal values
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| Support: | Livre |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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New York, N.Y. :
St. Martin's Press,
1992.
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| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Résumé: | Literature and criticism make us pressingly aware of how language operates through an elusive dialectic of presence and absence, making a world available to us and simultaneously separating us from it. One way to approach the idea of the person--an idea that literature and criticism have done much to shape and confirm--is by interpreting it within such a dialectic, as an evolving and evaluative term. A series of chapters brings to bear on these issues the vocabularies of hermeneutics and phenomenology, scientific verification, philosophy of imagination, Judaeo-Christian religion, and Marxism. A conclusion attempts a synthesis describing some vital relations between literature and culture, focussed on the category of the person |
| Résumé: | Literature and criticism make us pressingly aware of how language operates through an elusive dialectic of presence and absence, making a world available to us and simultaneously separating us from it. One way to approach the idea of the person--an idea that literature and criticism have done much to shape and confirm--is by interpreting it within such a dialectic, as an evolving and evaluative term. A series of chapters brings to bear on these issues the vocabularies of hermeneutics and phenomenology, scientific verification, philosophy of imagination, Judaeo-Christian religion, and Marxism. A conclusion attempts a synthesis describing some vital relations between literature and culture, focussed on the category of the person Throughout, the theoretical positions are developed by means of exegesis of appropriate literary texts |
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| Description: | NLC YDXCP NZ1 AU@ AU@ GEBAY |
| Description matérielle: | 1 vol. (x, 255 p.) ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-250) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0312075480 9780312075484 0333541596 9780333541593 |