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The art of distances : ethical thinking in twentieth-century literature / Corina Stan.

Van Pelt Library PN49 .S674 2018
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Stan, Corina, author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
European literature--20th century--History and criticism.
European literature.
Ethics in literature.
Social distance--Philosophy.
Social distance.
Philosophy.
Physical Description:
xiii, 304 pages ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2018.
Contents:
Introduction: Adorno and Barthes on the question of the right (di)stance
The pathos of distances in "a world of banished people"
George Orwell's critique of sincerity and the obligation of tactlessness
The inferno of saviors: notes in the margin of Elias Canetti's lifework
A socialism of distances, or on the difficulties of wise love: Iris Murdoch's secular community
"The world in me": the distantiality of everyday life
In search of a whole self: Benjamin's childhood fragments
Annie Ernaux's diaries of the outside
Gunter Grass's century
Damon Galgut on emptying oneself for sleep
Conclusion.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780810136854
0810136856
9780810136861
0810136864
OCLC:
1005114574

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