The work of literature

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Glavni autor: Attridge, Derek (-)
Vrsta građe: Knjiga
Jezik: eng
Impresum: Oxford : Oxford University Press, cop. 2015.
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  • Introduction. Part I: 1. The singularity of literature: A cross-examination What is 'literature'? The literary event Literary invention Terminological questions Media, periods, and genres Otherness and ethics The aesthetic tradition Sources and parallels Politics and ideology And to conclude... Part II 2. Justice Doing justice An example: Dickinson's 'As imperceptibly as grief' Signature and counter-signature 3. Singularita Unpacking singularity Singularity and ethics A songular invention: Donoghue's 'Room' 4. Criticism Critical power: the critic Critical power: the poet Muldoon's 'The loaf' and the limits of comomentary 5. Context The contest of creation The context or reading Present reading and historical context 6. Culture Inventiveness and cultural distance Reading 'The Yacoubian building' Responsible reading across cultures 7. Metaphor Performing literature Metaphor and metaphoricity Metaphor and the reader 8. Knowing What do literary works know? Ways of knowing and thinking Literature's secrets 9. Affect Literary affect: McCarthy's 'Blood Meridian' Affect and form Pleasure in reading 10. Hospitality The double law of hospitality Hospitality as ethics Invention, grace, and life Hospitality and literary criticism