Prosaics and other provocations : empathy, open time, and the novel

Prosaics and other provocations empathy, open time, and the novel

This far-ranging study develops Morson's concept of "prosaics," which stresses the importance of ordinary events and the novel's unique ability to portray them. Arguing that time is open and contingency real, Morson develops a "prosaics of process" showing how some mast...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Morson, Gary Saul (-)
Corporate Author: National Endowment for the Humanities and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program funder (funder)
Other Authors: Grave, Ivan
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Boston, MA Academic Studies Press 2013
Brighton, Massachussetts : 2013.
Edition:1st ed
Series:Ars Rossika.
Subjects:
Fiction > History and criticism.
Prose literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Events (Philosophy) in literature > History and criticism.
Empathy in literature > History and criticism.
Arts
Literary Criticism
Fyodor Dostoevsky
God
Leo Tolstoy
Mikhail Bakhtin
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009421022306719
Table of Contents:
  • Front matter
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface / Bethea, David M.
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part One. Overture
  • Chapter One. What Is Prosaics?
  • Part Two. What Is Open Time?
  • Chapter Two. Narrativeness
  • Chapter Three. The Prosaics of Process
  • Part Three. What Is Misanthropology?
  • Chapter Four. Misanthropology: Voyeurism and Human Nature / Chudo, Alicia
  • Chapter Five. Misanthropology, Continued: Disgust, Violence, and More on Voyeurism / Chudo, Alicia
  • Chapter Six. Misanthropology in Verse: An Onegin of Our Times / Chudo, Alicia
  • Part Four. What Is Literary Education?
  • Chapter Seven: Novelistic Empathy, and How to Teach It
  • Part Five. What Is Wit?
  • Chapter Eight: Contingency, Games, and Wit
  • Index

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