Going Home Through Seven Paths to Nowhere

Going Home Through Seven Paths to Nowhere
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Publisher : Akademiai Kiado
Total Pages : 178
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ISBN-10 : 9630580616
ISBN-13 : 9789630580618
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Book Synopsis Going Home Through Seven Paths to Nowhere by : Katalin G. Kállay

Download or read book Going Home Through Seven Paths to Nowhere written by Katalin G. Kállay and published by Akademiai Kiado. This book was released on 2003 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is one of those rare combinations of intellectual brilliance, stylistic clarity, and sheer verve. The book contains a series of major works of American short fiction by Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Henry James as occasions for a mode of reading in which the readers aim is to establish an intimate relationship with the special arrangement of words in a text, governed by a trust in a happy coincidence of moments in which one might recognize the words relevance to ones life. Dr. Kllay calls this a good encounter, a term she adopts from the writings of philosopher Stanley Cavell. In her detailed, theoretical introduction, Dr. Kllay lays bare her scholarly debt, primarily to the writings of Cavell himself and to the work of literary critic Wolfgang Iser, as she further develops and clarifies the idea of the good encounter. Here she identifies the good encounter with a particular trope, which appears within the tales themselves, and which also


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