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Heterogeneity of Being goes beyond the standard interpretations of Octavio Paz as a thinker of national identity and proposes a radical rethinking of the relationship between literature and philosophy. Dorfsman analyzes how Paz's "tradition of rupture" properly displays a continuity between self and other, identity and difference, time and space.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Turns and Returns, Vueltas y Vueltas
Chapter 2: The Inheritance of the Labyrinth
Chapter 3: From the Subject to the Negative and Back: Paz's Mexicans
Chapter 4: The Ancient Quarrel between History and Poetry
1.The Lyric, Identity, and Modernity
2.History, Difference, and Temporality
Chapter 5: Heads or Tails
1.Heads: Identity or Difference
2.Tails: Poetry, Hybridity, Thought
Chapter 6: Sun Stone: Circling Back to the Threshold
1. First Turn
2. Return on the Way to a Conclusion: The Threshold of Saying
Chapter 7: On the Field of Representation
Index

About the author

Marco Luis Dorfsman is associate professor of Spanish and humanities at the University of New Hampshire. He has taught comparative literature and translation at various liberal arts colleges and universities in Mexico, Spain, and the United States.

Summary

Heterogeneity of Being goes beyond the standard interpretations of Octavio Paz as a thinker of national identity and proposes a radical rethinking of the relationship between literature and philosophy. Dorfsman analyzes how Paz’s “tradition of rupture” properly displays a continuity between self and other, identity and difference, time and space.

Product details

• Authors: Marco Luis Dorfsman, Dorfsman Marco Luis
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2015
• EAN: 9780761865230
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-6523-0
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Mexico, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Literary studies: poetry & poets, History of the Americas, Literary studies: poetry and poets