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OverviewThis state of the art collection offers fresh perspectives on why intersections between literature, religion, and ethics can address the fault lines of modernity and are not necessarily the cause of modernity’s ‘faults.’ From a diverse cohort of scholars from around the world, with appointments in comparative literature and other disciplines, the essays suggest that the imagined hegemony of a Judeo-Christian Western project is neither exclusively true nor productive. However, the essays also suggest that elements of the Western religious traditions are important vectors for understanding modernity’s complicated relationship to the past. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Professor Kitty Millet (San Francisco State University, USA) , Dorothy Figueira (University of Georgia, USA)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA Weight: 0.367kg ISBN: 9781501362828ISBN 10: 1501362828 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 19 March 2020 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents"Acknowledgments Introduction Kitty Millet (San Francisco State University, USA) I. The Transcendental and Transcendence 1. Rewriting Grand Narratives as a Supratemporal Mystical Competition: Illustrations from Dante, Rabelais, Cervantes, Goethe, Proust, Mann, and Joyce Gerald Gillespie (Stanford University, USA) 2. ""Clearer Awareness of the … Crisis"": Erich Auerbach’s Radical Relativism and the ""Rich Tensions"" of the Historical Imperative Geoffrey Green (San Francisco State University, USA) 3. Secularism and Post-Secularism Wlad Godzich (University of California at Santa Cruz, USA) II. Literature 4. Redemptive Readings between Maurice Blanchot and Franz Rosenzweig Shawna Vesco (University of California at Santa Cruz, USA) 5. “So What If You Are Big?”: Divisive Identities and the Ethics of Pluralism in Medieval Indian Literatures of Devotion Ipshita Chanda (Jadavpur University, India, and Georgetown University, USA) 6. Alterity and the Ethics of the Novel in J. M. Coetzee's Quasi-Realism Christopher Weinberger (San Francisco State University, USA) III. Religion 7. Asmodeus, the “Eye of Providence,” and the Ethics of Seeing in 19th-Century Mystery Fiction Sara Hackenberg (San Francisco State University, USA) 8. Modernism’s Religious Rhetorics: Or, What Bothered Baudelaire Hope Hodgkins (University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA) 9. Poetry and Religion: Approaches to Christian Transcendence in Late 20th-Century Poets Stephanie Heimgartner (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany) IV. Ethics 10. Instituting the Other: Ethical Fault Lines in Readings and Pedagogies of Alterity Dorothy Figueira (University of Georgia, USA) 11. Thinking God on the Basis of Ethics: Levinas, The Brothers Karamazov, and Dostoevsky’s Anti-Semitism Steven Shankman (University of Oregon, USA) 12. An Ethics for Missing Persons Kitty Millet (San Francisco State University, USA) Index"ReviewsThis thoughtful collection of essays raises important questions about the role of literature and religion in today's fractured world, inviting us to rethink the boundaries that have been constructed between religion, ethics and literature and to broaden our vision beyond the traditions of Western culture. * Susan Bassnett, Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature, University of Warwick, UK, and Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Glasgow, UK * Against prevailing trends, Fault Lines of Modernity shows the power of reading great literature to engage urgent ethical and religious problems. From mystery fiction to mysticism, the works examined here provide sites of transcendence that expose modern divisions and ways to overcome them. * Brian Britt, Professor of Religion and Culture, Virginia Tech, USA * What does it mean to study literature in our time of crisis? What could or should it mean? A shared commitment to critical self-awareness and reflection on the grounds and aims of literary study unifies the diversity of perspectives represented here, which take a distinctive approach to famous (or infamous) disputes regarding literature's ambitions. The contested boundaries among literature, religion, and ethics serve as the starting point; the essays navigate these boundaries, and the tensions between assumptions of universality, on the one hand, and the rights of the marginalized and the irreducibly particular, on the other. The journeys through this fraught terrain draw our attention back to what has always been at stake: the complexity of human needs in times of cultural crisis, and literature's potential role in their redemption. * Susan McReynolds, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Northwestern University, USA * Author InformationKitty Millet is Professor of Comparative Jewish Literatures and Holocaust Studies, as well as Chair of the Department of Jewish Studies, at San Francisco State University, USA. She is also chairperson of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA) research committee on Religion, Ethics, and Literature. Her book, The Victims of Slavery, Colonization, and the Holocaust: A Comparative History of Persecution (Bloomsbury, 2017), analyzes the constitutive side of victimization within three groups, slaves in the Americas, Africans under German colonization, and death camp survivors of the Reinhard camps. Dorothy Figueira is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia, USA. She is the author of three books, including Otherwise Occupied: Theories and Pedagogies of Alterity (2008), and the editor of three books. She is past President of the International Comparative Literature Association (2005-6), former Editor of The Comparatist (2007-2011), and current Editor of the journal, Recherche littéraire/ Literary Research. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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