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Levinas and the other in narratives of facial disfigurement : singing through the mask
- Title
- Levinas and the other in narratives of facial disfigurement : singing through the mask / Gudrun M. Grabher.
- Author
- Grabher, Gudrun
- Publication
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Book/Text | Use in library | JFE 19-8995 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- x, 212 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
- Summary
- "Offering readings of a range of fictional and biographical texts, including work by Richard Selzer, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gaston Leroux, Willa Cather, Natalie Kusz and Lucy Grealy, this book examines reactions to facially disfigured people on the basis of Emmanuel Levinas' ethics of the face. Drawing on Levinas' concern with the holistic dimension of the face as an encounter with the other's 'whole person' and the sense of moral obligation that this instils in us - a sense that disfigurement disrupts by drawing our attention to the disfigurement as a 'spectacle' and threatening to limit our view of that individual - the author explores how we react to the facially disfigured and how we ought to react." --
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Emanuel Levinas -- Face value -- Facial disfigurement and its repairs -- Elephant people -- Narratives on facial disfigurement -- Conclusion.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-8995
- ISBN
- 9781138086661
- 1138086665
- LCCN
- 2018060239
- OCLC
- 1080997819
- Author
- Grabher, Gudrun, author.
- Title
- Levinas and the other in narratives of facial disfigurement : singing through the mask / Gudrun M. Grabher.
- Publisher
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Grabher, Gudrun, author. Levinas and the other in narratives of facial disfigurement. First edition. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. 9781351617598 (DLC) 2019980598
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-8995