Prosaics and other provocations : empathy, open time, and the novel / Gary Saul Morson
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Material Type | E-Book |
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Publisher | Boston : Academic Studies Press |
Year | 2013 |
Language | English |
Size | 1 electronic resource (xxiii, 274 pages) |
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Media type | 機械可読データファイル |
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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 |
Notes | 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. Viewing time as a "field of possibilities," he maintains that contingency and freedom are real. To represent open time, some masterpieces have developed an alternative to structure and require a "prosaics of process." Morson's curmudgeonly alter ego, Alicia Chudo, invents the discipline of misanthropology," which explores human voices from voyeurism to violence. Reflecting on his legendarily popular courses, Morson argues that what literature teaches better than anything else is empathy. Himself an aphorist, Morson offers a witty approach to literature's shortest genres and to quotation in general English Includes bibliographical references and index Description based on print version record; resource not viewed |
Authors | *Morson, Gary Saul, 1948- |
Subjects | LCSH:Electronic books BSH:Electronic books FREE:Criticism, interpretation, etc LCSH:Fiction -- History and criticism All Subject Search LCSH:Prose literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc All Subject Search LCSH:Events (Philosophy) in literature -- History and criticism All Subject Search LCSH:Empathy in literature BISACSH:FICTION -- General All Subject Search BISACSH:LITERARY CRITICISM -- Russian & Former Soviet Union All Subject Search BISACSH:FICTION -- General All Subject Search FREE:Empathy in literature FREE:Events (Philosophy) in literature FREE:Fiction |
Classification | DC23:809.3 |
ID | ED00001281 |
ISBN | 9781618111838 |