Prosaics and other provocations : empathy, open time, and the novel /

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Gary Saul Morson's ideas about life and literature have long inspired, annoyed, and provoked specialists and general readers. His work on "prosaics" (his coinage) argues that life's defining events are not grand but ordinary, and that the world's fundamental state is mess. V...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Morson, Gary Saul, 1948- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2013.
Series:Ars Rossika.
Subjects:
Fiction > History and criticism.
Prose literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Events (Philosophy) in literature > History and criticism.
Empathy in literature.
Roman > Histoire et critique.
Prose > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc.
Événement (Philosophie) dans la littérature > Histoire et critique.
Empathie dans la littérature.
FICTION > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Russian & Former Soviet Union.
Empathy in literature
Events (Philosophy) in literature
Fiction
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part one: Overture
  • What is Prosaics?
  • Part two: Narrativeness
  • The Prosaics of process
  • The vision of poetics and product
  • The counter-tradition: presentness and process
  • Outlining a Prosaics of process
  • Part three: What is Misanthropology?
  • Misanthropology: Voyeurism and human nature / Alicia Chudo
  • Misanthropology, continued: disgust, violence, and more on voyeurism / Alicia Chudo
  • Another look at voyeurism
  • Identification
  • Laughter and disgust
  • Misanthropology in verse: an onegin of our times / Alicia Chudo
  • Part four: What is literary Education?
  • Novelistic empathy, and how to teach it
  • Part five: What is wit?
  • Contingency, games, and wit.

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