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The Art of Distances : Ethical Thinking in Twentieth-Century Literature /

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In The Art of Distances, Corina Stan identifies an insistent preoccupation with interpersonal distance in a strand of twentieth-century European and Anglophone literature that includes the work of George Orwell, Paul Morand, Elias Canetti, Iris Murdoch, Walter Benjamin, Annie Ernaux, Günter Grass, a...

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Prif Awdur: Stan, Corina (Awdur)
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Cyhoeddwyd: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2018.
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Pynciau:
European literature.
Ethics in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Litterature europeenne > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Morale dans la litterature.
Distance sociale > Philosophie.
European literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Social distance > Philosophy.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • Introduction: Adorno and Barthes on the question of the right (di)stance
  • The pathos of distances in "a world of banished people"
  • George Orwell's critique of sincerity and the obligation of tactlessness
  • The inferno of saviors: notes in the margin of Elias Canetti's lifework
  • A socialism of distances, or on the difficulties of wise love: Iris Murdoch's secular community
  • "The world in me": the distantiality of everyday life
  • In search of a whole self: Benjamin's childhood fragments
  • Annie Ernaux's diaries of the outside
  • Gunter Grass's century
  • Damon Galgut on emptying oneself for sleep
  • Conclusion.

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