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

Description:

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, and Damon Galgut. Specifically, Stan shows that these... and An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org.

Keyword:

Zaoui, Plessner, George Orwell, Annie Ernaux, Walter Benjamin, Crowds and Power, modernism, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Elias Canetti, community, Jean-Luc Nancy, modernity, Levinas, literary criticism, ethics, Roland Barthes, Freud, Montaigne, Damon Galgut, Iris Murdoch, alienation, moral philosophy, Günter Grass, The Bell, Paul Morand, adorno, Sloterdijk, and relationships

Subject:

Literary criticism

Creator:

Stan, Corina

Owner:

Kirsten Markusic

Publisher:

Northwestern University Press

Language:

English

Date Uploaded:

06/08/2022

Date Modified:

06/08/2022

Date Created:

2018

Resource Type:

Book

Alternate Identifier:

Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3685-4, eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3687-8, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3686-1