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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... question that decides the truth of ourselves: Where are you? These essays endeavor to respond, “Here I am.” A glance at the table of contents will provide an indication of the multitude of voices and viewpoints that resound in these ...
... them according to their designated author. Unless indicated otherwise, all translations are my own. And all italics in passages quoted appear in the original text. Introduction Meaning is a response to a question. And the.
... question. And the general question to which we here respond is the question of the relation between literature and spirit. In order to deal with this question, we must, of course, raise other questions. Where, for example, do we find a ...
... question put to the first man: Where are you? Literature's affirmation of a truth that must be sought is thus an assignation of a responsibility that cannot be avoided. Just as truth is yet to be found, responsibility is yet to be met ...
... question of commentary or explication, our relation to literature is a matter of spiritual life and death. Few have been so aware of literature's profound implications for our spiritual life as Mikhail Bakhtin. Operating from a ...
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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 |