Literature And Spirit: Essays on Bakhtin and His ContemporariesUniversity Press of Kentucky, 2021 M03 17 - 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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... Aesthetics 8 (1985). The author is grateful to both periodicals for permission to reprint. Copyright ©1988 by The University Press of Kentucky Scholarly publisher for the Commonwealth, serving Bellarmine College, Berea College, Centre ...
... Aesthetics of Verbal Art, “Laughter lifts the barriers and opens the way to freedom” (Estetika 339). The primary barrier overcome by laughter is fear, the thing that holds us by the throat, and among the greatest of our fears is fear of ...
... aesthetic relationship with reality,” Bakhtin writes, “but not one which can be translated into logical language; that is, it is a specific means for aesthetically visualizing and comprehending reality” (Problems 164). In Bakhtin's view ...
... Aesthetic Activity,” for example, he writes, “Wherever the alibi becomes a prerequisite for creation and expression, there can be no responsibility, no seriousness, no meaning. A special responsibility is required . . . ;
... Aesthetics and Theory of the Novel is “a spiritual activity of the production and selection of sense, of connections, of axiological relations; it is the inner tension of a spiritual contemplation” (Esthétique 79-80). This position ...
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Literature And Spirit: Essays on Bakhtin and His Contemporaries David Patterson Vista previa limitada - 2014 |
Literature and Spirit: Essays on Bakhtin and His Contemporaries David Patterson Vista de fragmentos - 1988 |