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1 online resource (ix, 192 pages) |
| Series |
Value inquiry book series, 0929-8436 ; VOLUME 298. Philosophy, literature, and politics |
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Value inquiry book series ; v. 298.
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Value inquiry book series. Philosophy, literature, and politics.
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| Contents |
Spinoza's Ethics in Samuel Delany's Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders7 The Wanderings of Displaced Memory: Immanence in the Essays of Czesław Miłosz; 8 A Voyage in Immanence: Alberto Caeiro as an Expression of Spinoza's Ethics; 9 "One Kind of Knowledge": Poetic Language, Human Being, and Immanent Truth; Index |
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Reading the encounter: an introduction / Brynnar Swenson -- 1. "We've been inside what we wanted all along": David Foster Wallace's immanent structures / Jeffrey Severs -- 2. Suffering immanence in Samuel Beckett's The unnamable / Christopher Langlois -- 3. Immanence with a (negative) difference: Spinoza, Borges, and Barth / Zachary Tavlin -- 4. Explosions in the family theater: a schizoanalytic reading of Thomas Pynchon's Against the day / Emaline Friedman and Hans Skott-Myhre -- 5. Immanent realism: time and the corporate form in William Gaddis's Jr / Brynnar Swenson -- 6. Peace and love (and fuck) as the foundation of the world: Spinoza's Ethics in Samuel Delany's Through the valley of the nest of spiders / Stephen Zepke -- 7. The wanderings of displaced memory: immanence in the essays of Czeslaw Milosz / Ignas Kalpokas -- 8. A voyage in immanence: Alberto Caeiro as an expression of Spinoza's Ethics / Bartholomew Ryan -- 9. "One kind of knowledge": poetic language, human being and immanent truth / Johanna Skibsrud |
| Summary |
In Literature and the Encounter with Immanence Brynnar Swenson collects nine original essays that approach the relationship between literature and immanence through methodologies grounded in the philosophy of Spinoza. One of Spinoza's most provocative claims is a simple declaration of ignorance: "We do not know what a body can do." A literary theory based on immanence privileges the ontological status of the text and the material act of reading. Rather than ask what a text means, the essays here ask what a text can do. Each essay documents a distinct literary and philosophical encounter with immanence and, as a result, opens up a space to read literature as one would read philosophy and vice versa |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677 -- Influence
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| SUBJECT |
Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677 fast |
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Philosophy in literature.
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Immanence (Philosophy) in literature.
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Immanence of God in literature.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Immanence of God in literature
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Immanence (Philosophy) in literature
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Philosophy in literature
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Swenson, Brynnar, editor, contributor.
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| LC no. |
2017030099 |
| ISBN |
9004311939 |
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9789004311930 |
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