Platonism for the Iron Age : an essay on the literary universal / by Frederic Will.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Will, Frederic, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Idealism in literature--Congresses.

Idealism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (170 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The present book is a study of Platonic idealism as it can play out in daily life. It buttresses its defense of the Platonic through reference both to Classical Greek and eighteenth-century thought, and to language in the pressure cooker of the American street.

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; 1THE UNIVERSAL IN CHINA; 2EMILY DICKINSON AND CHINA; 3THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE UNIVERSAL; 4THE UNIVERSAL IN LITERATURE; 5AESTHETIC UNIVERSALITY; 6UNIVERSALITY AND HISTORY; 7DIVERSITY AND COMMONALITY; 8EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE, GREECE,THE UNIVERSAL; 9DIVERSITY, STANCE, HELLENISM; 10THE SELF AS AN ADVENTURER IN LANGUAGE; 11BABYTALK, LOGIC, AND L'INNOMABLE; 12THE BODY OF LITERATURE; 13HENTSCHER-DOMPAL AND DR. FAUSTUS; 14REPLACING YOUR LIFE; 15SCHOLARSHIP AND POIESIS; 16DOWE OWN OUR OWN LANGUAGE?; 17UNIVERSALITY, PRAYER, DEPTH; 18TRANSLATION AND DEPTH

19LITERATURE AND WHATWE ARE20LITERATURE AS CENTRAL ART; 21PLATONISM AND THE IDEAL; 22UNIVERSALITY AND THE CLASSICALTRADITION; 23OSTENTION AND OBLATION; 24OSTENTION AND LITERARITY; 25OEDIPUS, THE GREAT MAN, AND IDEALITY; 26STORMED BY POETRY; 27THE OPUS AND THE FICTIVE; 28THE UNIVERSAL AND THE TEXT; 29THE ANCIENT GRAVEYARD STILLNESS; 30LITERATURE AND THE MORAL/POLITICAL; 31TEXT OR BLOG?; 32ROGUE SPEECH; 33LANGUAGE AND WILD RAUSCH; 34LANGUAGE AND SIMPLICITY; 35THE DEMENTED KILLERWITHIN; 36LIVING WITH OTHER CULTURES; 37GREEKS, PLATONISM, SALVATION; 38THE ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM

39CONCRETE UNIVERSALITY40PRAYER AND THE LITERARY UNIVERSAL; 41INTERPERSONALITY AND DEPTH; 42LANGUAGE AND TRANSCENDENCE; 43ALAIN, SENTIMENTS, PASSIONS, ET SIGNES; 44PROGRESS IN THE ARTS?; 45GAYATRI SPIVAK ANDCOMPARATIVE LITERATURE; 46ART AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES; 47LITERATURE AND THE ROUNDED CHARACTER; 48GAYATRI, IS SHE RIGHT?; 49THE SEARCH FOR MEANING; 50MIDLIFE FICTIONS; 51THE GONCOURT PAR EXCELLENCE!

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 20, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4438-5960-5

OCLC:

881430446