Author: Ronnie LippensPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Transcendence and Transgression
Author: Ronnie LippensTranscendence and Transgression
Author: Elizabeth Susan BoltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Grotesque in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
Women's Transgression Or Transcendence in Relationships
Author: Barbara Blackmore BirgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
From Transgression to Transcendence
Author: Olga Lucia ValbuenaAdultery in the Novel
Author: Jessica Louise HowlettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adultery in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Dante and the Sense of Transgression
Author: William FrankePublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441150285
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
In Dante and the Sense of Transgression, William Franke combines literary-critical analysis with philosophical and theological reflection to cast new light on Dante's poetic vision. Conversely, Dante's medieval masterpiece becomes our guide to rethinking some of the most pressing issues of contemporary theory. Beyond suggestive archetypes like Adam and Ulysses that hint at an obsession with transgression beneath Dante's overt suppression of it, there is another and a prior sense in which transgression emerges as Dante's essential and ultimate gesture. His work as a poet culminates in the Paradiso in a transcendence of language towards a purely ineffable, mystical experience beyond verbal expression. Yet Dante conveys this experience, nevertheless, in and through language and specifically through the transgression of language, violating its normally representational and referential functions. Paradiso's dramatic sky-scapes and unparalleled textual performances stage a deconstruction of the sign that is analyzed philosophically in the light of Blanchot, Levinas, Derrida, Barthes, and Bataille, as transgressing and transfiguring the very sense of sense.
Exploring Erotic Encounters
Author: John T. GriderPublisher: At the Interface / Probing the
ISBN: 9789004350755
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Erotic encounters have assumed a myriad of shapes and forms throughout the histories of the world and, at many stages of those histories, have been understood as possessing the potential to take us closer to some ultimate mode of being that the everyday, in all of its artless modesty, seems unable to do. In this volume, discussions of the erotic as an extraordinary part of the human condition, manifest in examples such as: exoticised voyages to faraway lands; the thrills of ancient combat; the escape and enchantment of eroticized performance; transgressive notions of the female jouissance; the delights of the sexual pursuits in the virtual domain; the political possibilities of stigmatized, queer pleasure; and perceptions of 'fetishes' which include relationships with inanimate beings. It would appear that what is required for these out-of-the-ordinary quests, are pointed actions - movements away from the monotony of life's rhythms and outside the shelter of an otherwise predictable materiality.Contributors are Jon Braddy, John Dayton, Rita Dirks, John T. Grider, Billy Huff, Maciej Musiał, Naomi Stekelenburg, Dionne van Reenen and Tianyang Zhou.
Beyond
Author: Adriaan Theodoor PeperzakPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810114814
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Although Emmanuel Levinas is widely respected as one of the classic thinkers of our century, the debate about his place within Continental philosophy continues. In Beyond: The Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak shows Levinas's thought to be a persistent attempt to point beyond the borders of an economy where orderly interests and ways of reasoning make us feel at home--beyond the world of needs, beyond the self, beyond politics and administration, beyond logic and ontology, even beyond freedom and autonomy. Peperzak's examination begins with a general overview of Levinas's life and thought, and shows how issues of ethics, politics, and religion are intertwined in Levinas's philosophy. Peperzak also discusses the development of Levinas's relations with Husserl and Heidegger, demonstrating thematically the evolution of both Levinas's anti-Heideggerian view of technology and his critical attitude toward nature.
Books Promiscuously Read
Author: Heather Cass WhitePublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374719853
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
The critic and scholar Heather Cass White offers an exploration of the nature of reading Heather Cass White’s Books Promiscuously Read is about the pleasures of reading and its power in shaping our internal lives. It advocates for a life of constant, disorderly, time-consuming reading, and encourages readers to trust in the value of the exhilaration and fascination such reading entails. Rather than arguing for the moral value of reading or the preeminence of literature as an aesthetic form, Books Promiscuously Read illustrates the irreplaceable experience of the self that reading provides for those inclined to do it. Through three sections—Play, Transgression, and Insight—which focus on three ways of thinking about reading, Books Promiscuously Read moves among and considers many poems, novels, stories, and works of nonfiction. The prose is shot through with quotations reflecting the way readers think through the words of others. Books Promiscuously Read is a tribute to the whole lives readers live in their books, and aims to recommit people to those lives. As White writes, “What matters is staying attuned to an ordinary, unflashy, mutely persistent miracle; that all the books to be read, and all the selves to be because we have read them, are still there, still waiting, still undiminished in their power. It is an astonishing joy.”
Dante and the Sense of Transgression
Author: William FrankePublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441160426
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
William Franke reads Dante's poetic language in the Paradiso in the light of contemporary critical theory by such thinkers as Derrida, Blanchot and Bataille.