Ethical encounters : spaces and selves in the writings of Rudy Wiebe /

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The problems of knowing and representing the other are acute every time we encounter a text as writers or readers. Ethical Encounters engages with the representation of encounters with alterity in the writings of the Canadian author Rudy Wiebe. Drawing on Emmanuel Levinas's philosophy on the et...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Korkka, Janne
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2013.
Colección:Cross/cultures ; 166.
Temas:
Wiebe, Rudy, > 1934- > Criticism and interpretation.
Wiebe, Rudy, > 1934-
Self in literature.
Other (Philosophy) in literature.
Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature.
Altérité dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Other (Philosophy) in literature
Self in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: The Ethics of Knowing
  • Encountering Mennonite Alterity in Wiebe's writing; 3 Representing the First Nations:Encounters with totality of knowledge
  • People and prairie space:knowledge of the self and knowledge of space
  • Alterity of space:Where is the North?
  • Dissolution of the self's knowledge: 'Being in the North'
  • Conclusion: Space and the limits of the self's knowledge
  • Works Cited
  • Index.

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