William D. Melaney

Alterity and Criticism

Tracing Time in Modern Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume engages in discussions of cultural semiotics and late phenomenology, and provides insights into how modern literature provides one way of assessing the possibility of World Literature for our own time. It will be of interest to students and scholars of both literature and philosophy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: RLPG/Galleys
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9781786601490
• ISBN-10: 1786601494
• Artikelnr.: 48504749

Autorenporträt

William D. Melaney is Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the American University in Cairo. His research is interdisciplinary and embraces philosophy, literary studies, aesthetics and social thought. He has previously published numerous articles and three books on Continental philosophy and the problem of cultural modernity.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Alterity in Literary Texts
Part I: Romanticism as Beginning Alterity
2. Time in Goethe's Faust I: A Poetics of Disruption
3. Reassessing the Byronic Sublime: A Critique of Pure Autonomy
4. Coleridge as Poet-Critic: Imagination and Other Life
5. Shelley and the Myth of Poetry: The 'Return' of Metaphor
Part II: Alterity and the Prose Tradition
6. Flaubert's Dislocations: Rethinking a Crisis in Reading
7. Eliot and the Uses of Dante: Thresholds of the Unsayable
8. Joyce and Metaphor in Excess: Art, Encounter, Semiosis
9. Butor's Rite of Passage: Reference and Repetition
Part III: Critical Discourses of Alterity
10. Lévinas and Psychoanalysis: Engaging Alterity in Language
11. Iser's Aesthetic Phenomenology: Reading, Time and World
12. Alterity and Future Criticism: Modern Literature in Context
Bibliography
Index