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"Everyone has a complaint, but nobody likes a complainer. Rather than making things better a complaint can just make things worse. Often its only relief is the harmless and temporary release of steam. But it can also pose as criticism in one of several seemingly respectable forms. In Complaint,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ronell, Avital (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana ; Chicago : University of Illinois Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Complaints (Rhetoric) in literature.
Literature, Modern > History and criticism.
Complaints (Rhetoric) > Philosophy.
Social ethics.
Negativity (Philosophy)
Négativité (Philosophie)
Plaintes (Rhétorique) dans la littérature.
Plaintes (Rhétorique) > Philosophie.
PHILOSOPHY / General.
Complaints (Rhetoric) in literature
Literature, Modern
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Raising the Visor: The Complaint of Modernity
  • Ach! The History of a Complaint
  • The Trouble with Deconstruction
  • A Pass of Friendship
  • Hannah Arendt Swallows the Lessing Prize
  • The Right Not to Complain: On Johnson's Reparative Process.

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