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"I am because you are" : relationality in the works of Siri Hustvedt /
"I am because you are" is a key passage in 'What I Loved' (2003), contemporary American writer Siri Hustvedt's third novel, and a recurring motif throughout both her fictional and nonfictional work. This volume examines relational identity formation in her writing, especiall...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Heidelberg, Germany :
Universitätsverlag Winter,
2013.
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| Colección: | American Studies - A Monograph Series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. Encountering the Other: Philosophies of Intersubjectivity ; 2.1 Desire, Recognition, and the Master-Slave Stage: Siri Hustvedt and G.W.F.; 2.2 Dialogism: The Other as Complementation of the Self; 2.2.1 The Between, I-It, and I-You Relations: Martin Buber's Philosophy of of Dialogue; 2.2.2 Discourse and the Other: M.M. Bakhtin's Dialogical Principle; 2.3 Intersubjective Phenomenology: Embodiment as the Basis for Self-Other Relations; 2.3.1 Monadic Selves, Proprioception, and Intersubjective Community: Edmund Husserl's Fifth Cartesian Meditation.
- 2.3.2 Co-Existence and Reciprocity: Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Concept of Embodied Intersubjectivity2.4 The Face-to-Face Encounter and the Mystery of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas's Ethical Subjectivity; 3 Seeing on the Threshold: Self-Other Relations, Vision, and Visual Art in Siri Hustvedt's Works; 3.1 The Self as a Hole in Vision: Subjectivity and the Gaze of the Other; 3.1.1 Jacques Lacan: The Specular Subject; 3.1.2 Jean-Paul Sartre's Theory of Vision and Subjectivity; 3.1.3 M.M. Bakhtin: Vision and Consummation.
- 3.1.4 Alienation and Photographic Misrepresentation in Siri Hustvedt's The Blindfold and Other Works3.2 Moving toward the Other: Intersubjective Modes of Vision; 3.2.1 Voyeuristic Tendencies in Siri Hustvedt's Writing: The Pleasure of the Look; 3.2.2 Painting as a Medium of Dialogue in Siri Hustvedt's Intersubjective Vision of Art; 4 Identity and the Boundaries of the Body: Hysteria and Anorexia Nervosa in Siri Hustvedt's Writing; 4.1 Boundaries of the Body; 4.2 The Self as a Reflection of the Other's Desire: Hysteria; 4.3 Closing the Self Down: The Anorexic Struggle against the Open Body.
- 5 When the Other Goes Missing: Attachment, Loss, and Grief in Siri Hustvedt's Writing5.1 Relational Psychoanalysis: Attachment and Loss; 5.1.1 Mother-Child Relations and Intersubjective Psychoanalysis; 5.1.2 D.W. Winnicott: Holding, Mirroring, Playing, and the False Self ; 5.1.3 John Bowlby's Attachment Theory; 5.1.4 Hustvedt's Application of Relational Psychoanalysis; 5.2 Loss and Grief in What I Loved and The Sorrows of an American; 5.2.1 What I Loved: When Death Parts Self and Other; 5.2.2 The Sorrows of an American: Talking to Ghosts; 6. Conclusion; 7. Works Cited.