The distant relation : time and identity in Spanish American fiction /

The Distant Relation breaks down the artificial division between philosophy and literature by weaving contemporary philosophic arguments through close readings of Carpentier, Rulfo, Paz, and Garcia Marquez. Thomson draws the reader into the largely uninhabited space between philosophy and literature...

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Main Author: Thomson, Eoin Scott
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000
Series:McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 30.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Towards a New Philosophy of Relation
  • SECTION 1 BEING TOO GREAT FOR WORDS
  • Otherness and the Ineffable
  • Before Me, I Turned Aside: Opacity
  • Transcendence and Extimacy: The Extimate Relation
  • Exposure: A Flash for the Night
  • SECTION 2 INTERLUDE
  • Los pasos perdidos: Absence and Writing
  • The Duplicity of Fiction
  • Fiction's Absent Source
  • Duplicity and Absence in El acoso
  • SECTION 3 RETURN TO OPACITY
  • Foreignness as an Emblem of Opacity
  • The Strangers of La hojarasca
  • Ventriloquism: Voicing and Speech in El otoÃ"o del patriarcaSECTION 4 THE TIME OF THE BETWEEN
  • The Persistence of the Past
  • Revolt and Resurrection in El laberinto de la soledad
  • The Place over the Embers
  • Dead Silent: Pedro Páramo
  • SECTION 5 POSTPONEMENT: IN LIEU OF AN ENDING
  • Simultaneity, Language, History
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
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