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Alterity and Criticism: Tracing Time in Modern Literature

Alterity and Criticism: Tracing Time in Modern Literature

Melaney, William D.

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PhilosophyLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 1786601494
ISBN13: 9781786601490
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Nov 8 2017
Pages: 238
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.90 Width: 22.70 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

How does the theme of the other--as person, experience or alternative conceptual scheme--allow us to reassess the role of the self in literary texts? This book employs phenomenology and semiotics to argue that modern literature is strongly concerned with the role of time in the construction of the self.

Alterity and Criticism: Retracing Time in Modern Literature argues that the role of time in canonical literature underlies the experience of alterity and requires a new hermeneutic to clarify how the self emerges in literary texts. Romantic poetry from Goethe to Shelley and the modern prose tradition from Flaubert to Butor constitute different traditions but also indicate, on a textual basis, how alterity performs a crucial role in reading, thus encouraging us to interpret literary texts in terms of the related concerns of self, other and time. The author examines the phenomenology of Emmanuel Lévinas and Wolfgang Iser, as well as the cultural semiotics of Julia Kristeva, to argue that modern literature provides the occasion for a new understanding of the self in time and, in this way, addresses some of the pressing literary problems of our own period.

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