The Art of Distances : Ethical Thinking in Twentieth-Century Literature / / Corina Stan.
In The Art of Distances, Corina Stan identifies an insistent preoccupation with interpersonal distance in a strand of twentieth-century European and Anglophone literature that includes the work of George Orwell, Paul Morand, Elias Canetti, Iris Murdoch, Walter Benjamin, Annie Ernaux, Günter Grass, a...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Evanston, Illinois : : Northwestern University Press,, 2018. ©2018. |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 304 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Adorno and Barthes on the question of the right (di)stance
- The pathos of distances in "a world of banished people"
- George Orwell's critique of sincerity and the obligation of tactlessness
- The inferno of saviors: notes in the margin of Elias Canetti's lifework
- A socialism of distances, or on the difficulties of wise love: Iris Murdoch's secular community
- "The world in me": the distantiality of everyday life
- In search of a whole self: Benjamin's childhood fragments
- Annie Ernaux's diaries of the outside
- Gunter Grass's century
- Damon Galgut on emptying oneself for sleep
- Conclusion.