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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... inner meanings of individual authors as well as the interrelationships among them. Certain passages from Bakhtin, it will be noted, appear in several places and in varied contexts, each one revealing a given voice or voicing in a given ...
... inner being” (see Heidegger, Poetry 128)—is essential to the creation and the development of literature. Indeed, the history of literature is the history of a movement inward, beyond the powers of confinement —a point that ties it to ...
... inner man—'one's own self,' accessible not to passive observation but only through an active dialogic approach to one's own self” (Problems 120). The inner man or the soul of man thrives on the storm and stress of metaphysical laughter ...
... inner infinity” when he says, “Life struggles to hide within itself, to go off to its inner infinity, fears limitations, struggles to break through them” (Estetika 176-77). Life struggles to penetrate one mask after another, endlessly ...
... inner infinity behind the mask. This is where we collide with the absolute Other and encounter the infinite possibility within and about ourselves, for we arrive at ourselves by way of the other. Thus we set out, in Bakhtin's words, to ...
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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 |