Unruly Examples : On the Rhetoric of Exemplarity / Alexander Gelley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gelley, Alexander, Author.

Contributor:

Boyarin, Daniel, Contributor.

Caruth, Cathy, Contributor.

Gelley, Alexander, Contributor.

Harvey, Irene E., Contributor.

Keenan, Thomas, Contributor.

Lloyd, David, Contributor.

Lyons, John D., Contributor.

Marin, Louis, Contributor.

Miller, J. Hillis, Contributor.

Nichols, Stephen G., Contributor.

Rapaport, Herman, Contributor.

Ziarek, Ewa, Contributor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (388 p.) : illus

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Contributors

Introduction

PART I. Historical Forms of Exemplarity

Take the Bible for Example: Midrash as Literary Theory

Example versus Historia: Montaigne, Eriugena, and Dante

Circe's Drink and Sorbonnic Wine: Montaigne's Paradox of Experience

The Discourse of the Example: An "Example," Chapter IV of the First Part of The Logic of Port-Royal

PART II. Exemplarity in Literature

Fables of Responsibility

The Pragmatics of Exemplary Narrative

Parabolic Exemplarity: The Example of Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"The Beauty of Failure": Kafka and Benjamin on the Task of Transmission and Translation

PART III. Exemplarity in Philosophy

Exemplarity and the Origins of Legislation

Kant's Examples

The Force of Example: Kant's Symbols

Of the Eye and the Law

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022)

ISBN:

1-5036-1553-7

OCLC:

1294426646