Imperfection and Defeat : The Role of Aesthetic Imagination in Human Society /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nemoianu, Virgil
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Central European University Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Poetik
Literatur
Literature and history.
Literature > Aesthetics.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
Litterature > Esthetique.
Litterature et histoire.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A philosophical foundation
  • The dialectic of literature and religion
  • The dialectic of literature and history
  • East/Central Europe as a confirmatory case study
  • Literature as allegory of human persecution and survival.

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