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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... word, it takes the word by storm to discover the mysteries of creation. If truth is the object of its quest, the ... living self of the human being, its subject is always somewhere else, its kingdom always yet to come, couched in the word ...
... living image from dead stone, laughter frees literature for the movement into those regions where we carry on the ... live by the breath of the dialogical word. Only as we live in the spirit do we live in freedom and wholeness, at ...
... word, the life of the living individual proceeds along a path of shifting contexts, of shifting voices, in the dialogical interaction with the other. Hence we discover that, as the most extreme case of the other and of the alien ...
... word is born in a dialogue as a living rejoinder within it; the word is shaped in dialogic interaction with an alien word” (279). The nuances of an utterance belong both to the speaker and to the listener, as well as to their linguistic ...
... live, we are in process, our lives characterized by the movement of quest and question, by ... word, that launches us into the inner regions of ourselves, not as ... living dialogical event. The “two or several consciousnesses”. Bakhtin ...
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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 |