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Literature and the encounter with immanence / edited by Brynnar Swenson.
- Title
- Literature and the encounter with immanence / edited by Brynnar Swenson.
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill-Rodopi, [2017]
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- Additional Authors
- Swenson, Brynnar
- Description
- ix, 192 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Philosophy, Literature, and Politics (PLP) offers studies of literature and literary history in the context of philosophical and political ideas. The series also spans the discursive territory in which philosophy is produced by literature and vice-versa. PLP is a special series in VIBS, the Value Inquiry Book Series. Literature and the Encounter with Immanence, 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. Book jacket.
- Series Statement
- Value inquiry book series ; VOLUME 298
- Value inquiry book series: Philosophy, literature, and politics
- Uniform Title
- Value inquiry book series v. 298.
- Value inquiry book series. Philosophy, literature, and politics.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9789004311923
- 9004311920
- LCCN
- ^^2017014974
- OCLC
- 978286787
- SCSB-12161696
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library