Distant Relation : Time and Identity in Spanish American Fiction.
Title:
Distant Relation : Time and Identity in Spanish American Fiction.
Author:
Thomson, Eoin S.
ISBN:
9780773564213
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (190 pages)
Series:
McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas ; v.30
McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Towards a New Philosophy of Relation -- SECTION 1 BEING TOO GREAT FOR WORDS -- Otherness and the Ineffable -- Before Me, I Turned Aside: Opacity -- Transcendence and Extimacy: The Extimate Relation -- Exposure: A Flash for the Night -- SECTION 2 INTERLUDE -- Los pasos perdidos: Absence and Writing -- The Duplicity of Fiction -- Fiction's Absent Source -- Duplicity and Absence in El acoso -- SECTION 3 RETURN TO OPACITY -- Foreignness as an Emblem of Opacity -- The Strangers of La hojarasca -- Ventriloquism: Voicing and Speech in El otoño del patriarca -- SECTION 4 THE TIME OF THE BETWEEN -- The Persistence of the Past -- Revolt and Resurrection in El laberinto de la soledad -- The Place over the Embers -- Dead Silent: Pedro Páramo -- SECTION 5 POSTPONEMENT: IN LIEU OF AN ENDING -- Simultaneity, Language, History -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Abstract:
In The Distant Relation Eoin Thomson presents innovative readings of canonical philosophic and literary texts, focusing on the distance that mediates the relation between word and thing, past and present, I and you. Through a novel convergence, itself arising from a field of philosophic and literary experimentation, he challenges previous traditions while demonstrating that his strategy is appropriate to the texts considered.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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