Lyotard, Literature and the Trauma of the differend

D. Sawyer (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

259 Seiten

2014 | 1st ed. 2014
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-48050-0 (ISBN)

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This original study examines Jean-François Lyotard's philosophical concept of the differend and details its unexplored implications for literature. it provides a new framework with which to understand the discourse itself, from its Homeric beginnings to postmodern works by authors such as Michael Ondaatje and Jonathan Safran Foer.

Dylan Sawyer received his English Literature Doctorate from Aberystwyth University and his MA in Philosophy and Literature from the University of Warwick, UK. His research interests are Post-War Continental Philosophy and late 20th Century Fiction.

List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Differend and Beyond 2. Housed Exile 3. Homer and Ondaatje 4. The Traumatic Sublime Bibliography Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	26.05.2016
Zusatzinfo	IX, 259 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Continental Philosophy • differend • Ethical Writing • Homer • Jonathan Safran Foer • Literary Studies • Literature • Lyotard • Michael Ondaatje • Philosophy • postmodern • Sublime • Testimony • Trauma
ISBN-10	1-349-48050-9 / 1349480509
ISBN-13	978-1-349-48050-0 / 9781349480500
Zustand	Neuware