Self-Reflection in Literature
Self-reflection is fundamental for human thinking on many levels. Philosophy has described the mind's capacity to observe itself as a core element of human existence. Political and social sciences have shown how modern democracies depend on society's ability to critically reflect on their own values and practices. And literature of all ages has proven self-reflexivity to be a crucial trait of cultural production. This volume provides the first diachronic panorama of genres, forms, and functions…
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- Full title :Self-Reflection in Literature
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Self-reflection is fundamental for human thinking on many levels. Philosophy has described the mind's capacity to observe itself as a core element of human existence. Political and social sciences have shown how modern democracies depend on society's ability to critically reflect on their own values and practices. And literature of all ages has proven self-reflexivity to be a crucial trait of cultural production. This volume provides the first diachronic panorama of genres, forms, and functions of literary self-reflection and their connections with social, political and philosophical discourses from the 17th century to the present. Far beyond the usual focus on postmodernist opacity, these contributions present a rich tradition of critical transparency: Literary texts that show us what is behind and beyond them.
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- Publication Date:2019.
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- Publisher(s):Brill
- Place of Publication:Boston
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2019.
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The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (295 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9004407111, 9789004407114
- oclc:on1132420951
- LC Classification:PN56.I42
- Dewey Decimal:800
Table of Contents
Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Read Thyself: Cultural Self- reflection and the Relevance of Literary "Self"- labels -- 1 Cultural Self- Reflection and Contemporary Crises -- 2 Literary "Self"- Labels-a Brief Retrospective -- 3 History, Genres, Forms and Functions: a Rough Conceptual Framework -- 4 Contributions in This Volume -- References -- Reflections on Reflection: Autoreferentiality, Autoreflexivity, Selftransparency -- References -- 1600-
Chapter 1 Cervantes's and Unamuno's Metalepsis: Hope Unraveled in Don Quixote: Self-Reflexivity and the Problem of Metalepsis in Cervantes, Unamuno, and Bloch -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Bloch on Hope, and the Problem of Metafiction -- 3 Two Intersecting Spheres -- 4 Problematizing the Political Instrumentalization of Don Quixote in the Early Twentieth Century: the Case of Unamuno -- 5 The Relegation of Utopia to the Realm of Fiction -- 6 Reclaiming Utopia from Fiction: Back to Unamuno -- 7 Conclusion -- References -- 1700-
Chapter 2 Hamann's Latent Parrhesia: Intertextual Exploration of the Self in Sokratische Denkwürdigkeiten -- 1 Hege…
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