Literature And Spirit: Essays on Bakhtin and His ContemporariesUniversity Press of Kentucky, 2014 M07 15 - 176 páginas "If Bakhtin is right," Wayne C. Booth has said, "a very great deal of what we western critics have spent our time on is mistaken, or trivial, or both." In Literature and Spirit David Patterson proceeds from the premise that Bakhtin is right. Exploring Bakhtin's notions of spirit, responsibility, and dialogue, Patterson takes his reader from the narrow arena of literary criticism to the larger realm of human living and human loving. True to the spirit of Bakhtin, he draws the Russian into a vibrant dialogue with other thinkers, including Foucault, Berdyaev, Gide, Lacan, Levinas, and Heidegger. But he does not stop there. He engages Bakhtin in his own insightful and unique dialogue, meeting the responsibility and taking the risk summoned by dialogue. Literature and Spirit, therefore, is not a typically cool and detached exercise in academic curiosity. Instead, it is a passionate and penetrating endeavor to respond to literature and spirit as the links in life's attachment to life. The author demonstrates that in deciding something about literature, we decide something about the substance and meaning of our lives. Far from being a question of commentary or explication, he argues, our relation to literature is a matter of spiritual life and death. The reader who comes before a literary text encounters the human voice. And Patterson enables his reader to hear that voice in all its spiritual dimensions. Unique in its questions and in its quest, Literature and Spirit addresses an audience that goes beyond the ordinary academic categories. It appeals not only to students of literature, philosophy, and religion, but to anyone who seeks an understanding of spiritual presence and meaning in life. Through his affirmation of what is dear, Patterson responds to the needful question. And in his response he puts the question to his audience: Where are you? Literature and Spirit thus speaks to those who face the task of answering, "Here I am." |
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... dialogue with the ideas of others. Only in such interaction do ideas come to life. And we, the readers and respondents ... interaction. This book, then, moves into a space between Bakhtin and his fellows in an effort to establish a dialogical ...
... interaction. Foucault has explained that from the Renaissance point of view ... dialogical dimensions that laughter introduces to discourse, dimensions that ... language; that is, it is a specific means for aesthetically visualizing and ...
... Dialogic Imagination, opens up “the possibility of translating one's own intentions from one linguistic system into ... dialogical interaction with the other. Hence we discover that, as the most extreme case of the other and of the ...
... dialogical word essential to truth is born in the interaction with the alien word of madness. The interaction between word and alien word is the paradigm for truth conceived not as what is found but as what is sought. The former belongs ...
... dialogue with life. In the words of Bakhtin, the freedom born of laughter is what enables literary discourse to engage in “an uninterrupted mutual interaction with the discourse of life” (Dialogic 303). Why? Because, as Bakhtin notes ...
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Dostoevskys Poetics of Spirit | 33 |
Author Hero and the Language of the Self | 67 |
Signification Responsibility Spirit | 98 |
Word and Being | 128 |
SIX Conclusion | 155 |
Works Cited | 159 |
Index | 163 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Literature And Spirit: Essays on Bakhtin and His Contemporaries David Patterson Vista previa limitada - 2021 |
Literature and Spirit: Essays on Bakhtin and His Contemporaries David Patterson Vista de fragmentos - 1988 |