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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... reality that was inconclusive and fluid” (Dialogic 39). Thus the change in literary form is concurrent with a change in consciousness and in the concepts by which we order the world before us and within us. The waning of the epic and ...
... 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, the aesthetic relationship ...
... the infinity of non-nature” (Madness 284), the open horizon of all that is other to the artificial arrangement of reality we term nature. Hence we collide with nothingness, a nothingness that is not a mute emptiness but.
... reality; creation is in this sense an act of violence, a certain crime, a stealing of fire from the gods. The “infinity of non-nature” invades the finitude of “nature” to overturn all that is “natural in feeling” and to turn the soul ...
... reality. Hence the novel does not engage in monological description or prescription but in dialogical encounter and collision. While Bakhtin reveals the role of laughter in that encounter, Foucault unearths the function of madness in ...
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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 |