Fault lines of modernity the fractures and repairs of religion, ethics, and literature / edited by Kitty Millet and Dorothy Figueira.

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Publication InfoNew York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
Descriptionviii, 258 pages ; 24 cm
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Subjects
Literature and morals--Congresses.
Religion and literature--Congresses.
European literature--History and criticism. --Congresses.

Other author/creatorMillet, Kitty.
Other author/creatorFigueira, Dorothy Matilda, 1955-
Other author/creatorInternational Comparative Literature Association. Congress 2013 : Université de Paris IV: Paris-Sorbonne) (20th :
Other author/creatorFault Lines of Modernity (Conference) (2014 : San Francisco State University)
Contents Introduction / Kitty Millet -- The transcendental and transcendence. Rewriting grand narratives as a supratemporal mystical competition: illustrations from Dante, Rabelais, Cervantes, Goethe, Proust, Mann, and Joyce / Gerald Gillespie -- "Clearer awareness of the "crisis": Erich Auerbach's radical relativism and the "rich tensions" of the historical imperative / Geoffrey Green -- Secularism and post-secularism / Wlad Godzich -- Literature. Redemptive readings between Maurice Blanchot and Franz Rosenzweig / Shawna Vesco -- "So what if you are big?": divisive identities and the ethics of pluralism in Indian literatures of devotion / Ipshita Chanda -- Alterity and the ethics of the novel in J.M. Coetzee's quasi-realism / Christopher Weinberger -- Religion. Asmodeus, the "eye of providence" and the ethics of seeing in nineteenth-century mystery fiction / Sara Hackenberg -- Modernism's religious rhetorics: or, what bothered Baudelaire / Hope Hodgkins -- Poetry and religion: approaches to Christian transcendence in late 20th-century poets / Stephanie Heimgartner -- Ethics. Instituting the other: ethical fault lines in readings and pedagogies of alterity / Dorothy Figueira -- Thinking God on the basis of ethics: Levinas, The Brothers Karamazov, and Dostoevsky's anti-semitism / Steven Shankman -- An ethics for missing persons / Kitty Millet.
General noteBased on papers presented at the conferences, 2013 International Comparative Literature Association Congress (ICLA) held in Paris, and, the 2014 Fault Lines of Modernity conference, held at San Francisco State University.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2018033784
ISBN9781501316654 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN9781501316685 (epdf)

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