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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... process of becoming, and the process of becoming is essential to spiritual life. The barriers, the stone walls, removed by laughter are the walls that the rigor mortis of monological reason erects between life and itself, the “twice two ...
... process of becoming by which it lives. And as literature lives, so does consciousness, ever interacting with itself. Laughter launches us into the open and thus carries us into the depths, where we hear the alien call of deep unto deep ...
... process of becoming takes us inward and recedes as we approach it: we stare into the abyss, and the abyss stares back. There perhaps we grow afraid; as Jacques Lacan notes, “one is never happy making way for a new truth, for it always ...
... process and passage. To be in the process of becoming oneself is to be in a state of passage, engaged in the movement of return that characterizes the relation to the truth, which is a relation to the other. This is the revelation, the ...
... becoming other to oneself is a project of shifting from one's own discourse to the discourse of the other. This movement, we read in The Dialogic Imagination ... becoming other to himself, the process that forms the basis of his relation.
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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 |