Quiet Testimony : : A Theory of Witnessing from Nineteenth-Century American Literature / / Shari Goldberg.
The nineteenth century was a time of extraordinary attunement to the unspoken, the elusively present, and the subtly haunting. Quiet Testimony finds in such attunement a valuable rethinking of what it means to encounter the truth. It argues that four key writers—Emerson, Douglass, Melville, and Henr...
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Goldberg, Shari, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Quiet Testimony : A Theory of Witnessing from Nineteenth-Century American Literature / Shari Goldberg. New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2013] ©2013 1 online resource (208 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Arriving at Quiet -- 1. Emerson: Testimony without Representation -- 2. Douglass: Testimony without Identity -- 3. Melville: Testimony without Voice -- 4. James: Testimony without Life -- Conclusion: Staying Quiet -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The nineteenth century was a time of extraordinary attunement to the unspoken, the elusively present, and the subtly haunting. Quiet Testimony finds in such attunement a valuable rethinking of what it means to encounter the truth. It argues that four key writers—Emerson, Douglass, Melville, and Henry James—open up the domain of the witness by articulating quietude’s claim on the clamoring world.The premise of quiet testimony responds to urgent questions in critical theory and human rights. Emerson is brought into conversation with Levinas, and Douglass is considered alongside Agamben. Yet the book is steeped in the intellectual climate of the nineteenth century, in which speech and meaning might exceed the bounds of the recognized human subject. In this context, Melville’s characters could read the weather, and James’s could spend an evening with dead companions.By following the path by which ostensibly unremarkable entities come to voice, Quiet Testimony suggests new configurations for ethics, politics, and the literary. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023) American literature 19th century History and criticism. Witness bearing (Christianity) in literature. American Studies. Literary Studies. Philosophy & Theory. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. bisacsh Douglass. Emerson. Henry James. Melville. ethics. literary. quiet. silence. testimony. witnessing. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014 9783111189604 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110707298 print 9780823254774 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823254798?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823254798 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823254798/original |
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