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Engaging in discussions of cultural semiotics and late phenomenology, and providing insights into how modern literature provides one way of assessing the possibility of World Literature for our own time, Alterity and Criticism will be of interest to students and scholars of both literature and philosophy.
List of contents
1. Introduction: Alterity in Literary Texts / Part I: Romanticism as Beginning Alterity / 2. Time in Goethe's Faust I: A Poetics of Disruption / 3. Reassessing the Byronic Sublime: A Critique of Pure Autonomy / 4. Coleridge as Poet-Critic: Imagination and Other Life / 5. Shelley and the Myth of Poetry: The 'Return' of Metaphor / Part II: Alterity and the Prose Tradition / 6. Flaubert's Dislocations: Rethinking a Crisis in Reading / 7. Eliot and the Uses of Dante: Thresholds of the Unsayable / 8. Joyce and Metaphor in Excess: Art, Encounter, Semiosis / 9. Butor's Rite of Passage: Reference and Repetition / Part III: Critical Discourses of Alterity / 10. Lévinas and Psychoanalysis: Engaging Alterity in Language / 11. Iser's Aesthetic Phenomenology: Reading, Time and World / 12. Alterity and Future Criticism: Modern Literature in Context / Bibliography / Index
About the author
William D. Melaney is Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the American University in Cairo. His research is interdisciplinary and embraces philosophy, literary studies, aesthetics and social thought. He has previously published numerous articles and three books on Continental philosophy and the problem of cultural modernity.
Summary
Engaging in discussions of cultural semiotics and late phenomenology, and providing insights into how modern literature provides one way of assessing the possibility of World Literature for our own time, Alterity and Criticism will be of interest to students and scholars of both literature and philosophy.
