Literature and the encounter with immanence / / edited by Brynnar Swenson.

In Literature and the Encounter with Immanence Brynnar Swenson collects nine original essays that approach the relationship between literature and immanence through methodologies grounded in the philosophy of Spinoza. One of Spinoza’s most provocative claims is a simple declaration of ignorance: “We...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill-Rodopi,, 2017.
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Value Inquiry Book Series 298.
Physical Description:1 online resource (192 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Reading the Encounter: An Introduction / Brynnar Swenson
  • “We’ve been inside what we wanted all along”: David Foster Wallace’s Immanent Structures / Jeffrey Severs
  • Suffering Immanence in Samuel Beckett’s The Unnamable / Christopher Langlois
  • Immanence with a (Negative) Difference: Spinoza, Borges, and Barth / Zachary Tavlin
  • Explosions in the Family Theater: A Schizoanalytic Reading of Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day / Emaline Friedman and Hans Skott-Myhre
  • Immanent Realism: Time and the Corporate Form in William Gaddis’s jr / Brynnar Swenson
  • Peace and Love (and Fuck) as the Foundation of the World; Spinoza’s Ethics in Samuel Delany’s Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders / Stephen Zepke
  • The Wanderings of Displaced Memory: Immanence in the Essays of Czesław Miłosz / Ignas Kalpokas
  • A Voyage in Immanence: Alberto Caeiro as an Expression of Spinoza’s Ethics / Bartholomew Ryan
  • “One Kind of Knowledge”: Poetic Language, Human Being, and Immanent Truth / Johanna Skibsrud.