Dialogic openness in Nikos Kazantzakis / by Charitini Christodoulou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Christodoulou, Charitini.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kazantzakis, Nikos, 1883-1957--History and criticism.

Kazantzakis, Nikos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this book, Charitini Christodoulou argues that a certain perception of openness that she calls "dialogic" permeates Nikos Kazantzakis' The Last Temptation. Partly based on Umberto Eco's theory in Opera Aperta and Mikhail Bakhtin's notion of dialogism, the term "dialogic openness" refers to the idea of antithetical forces clashing and thus revealing different forms of tension that are not resolved at the end of the novel. Thus, it is shown that subjectivity and meaning is always in the proc...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

1-4438-4301-6

OCLC:

820123415