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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... alien, it has a relation to the radically alien discourse of madness. He understands that because literature's dialogical dimensions are its spiritual dimensions, a poetics of literature is also a poetics of spirit, and.
... alien call of deep unto deep. The barriers penetrated by laughter, then, are those that block the way inward, and the movement inward—to what Rainer Maria Rilke calls “the depth dimension of our inner being” (see Heidegger, Poetry 128) ...
... alien discourse, truth is cast in terms of possibility—and therefore of freedom—rather than necessity. To step beyond the confines of a standing discourse is precisely to step forward unarmed, as Foucault says, for the function of the ...
... alien discourse, the madman is the most essential to the I's relation to truth and therefore to literature's ability to address truth, which, indeed, is what literature is about. As Bakhtin points out, the clown and the fool come to the ...
... alien word” (279). The nuances of an utterance belong both to the speaker and to the listener, as well as to their ... alien word of madness. The interaction between word and alien word is the paradigm for truth conceived not as what is ...
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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 |