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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Korkka, Janne
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2013.
Series:Cross/cultures ; 166.
Subjects:
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.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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