Gary Saul Morson Prosaics and Other Provocations (Hardback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Prosaics and Other ProvocationsCondition: NewSubtitle: Empathy, Open Time, and the NovelEAN: 9781618111616ISBN: 9781618111616Publisher: Academic Studies PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 08/29/2013Description: Gary Saul Morson’s ideas about life and literature have long inspired, annoyed, and provoked specialists and general readers. His work on “prosaics” (his coinage) argues that life’s defining events are not grand but ordinary, and that the world’s fundamental state is mess. Viewing time as a “field of possibilities,” he maintains that contingency and freedom are real. To represent open time, some masterpieces have developed an alternative to structure and require a “prosaics of process.” Morson’s curmudgeonly alter ego, Alicia Chudo, invents the discipline of “misanthropology,” which explores human vices from voyeurism to violence. Reflecting on his legendarily popular courses, Morson argues that what literature teaches better than anything else is empathy. Himself an aphorist, Morson offers a witty approach to literature’s shortest genres and to quotation in general.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USAuthor: Gary Saul MorsonGenre: Literary CriticismBook Series: Ars RossicaItem Height: 238mmItem Length: 159mmRelease Year: 2013 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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