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Imperfection and defeat : the role of aesthetic imagination in human society /
Literature is defined in a challenging way as the "science" of imperfection and defeat, or else as a type of discourse that deals with defeat, loss, uncertainty in social life, by contrast with virtually all disciplines (hard sciences or social sciences) that affirm certainties and wish to...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Budapest ; New York :
Central European University Press,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Literature is defined in a challenging way as the "science" of imperfection and defeat, or else as a type of discourse that deals with defeat, loss, uncertainty in social life, by contrast with virtually all disciplines (hard sciences or social sciences) that affirm certainties and wish to convince us of truths. If in real history most constructive attempts end up in failure, it follows that we ought to have also a field of research that examines this diversity of failures and disappointments, as well as the alternative options to historical evolution and progress. Thus literature serves an indispensable role: that of gleaning the abundance of past existence, the gratuitous and the rejected being placed here on an equal level with the useful and the successful. This provocative and unusual approach is illustrated in chapters that deal with the dialectics between literary writing and such fields as historical writing, or religious discourses, and is also illustrated by the socio-historical development of East-Central Europe |
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| Notas: | Includes index. Revisions of lectures delivered at the Central European University in Feb.-March 2004. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (150 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1429413425 9781429413428 9786155211058 6155211051 1281376655 9781281376657 9786611376659 6611376658 |