Lyotard, Literature and the Trauma of the differend [electronic resource] /
Sawyer, D.author.
This original study examines Jean-François Lyotard's philosophical concept of the differend and details its unexplored implications for literature. it provides a new framework with which to understand the discourse itself, from its Homeric beginnings to postmodern works by authors such as Michael Ondaatje and Jonathan Safran Foer.
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Cover; Half-Title ; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; The politics of representation; The unavoidable act; The siren's song; Sustaining a paradox; Lyotard; The postmodern condition; Critical concerns; Literature; 1 The differend and Beyond; The phrase; The victim; The human; The sublime; Tribunal; Literature of the differend; The affect; Soundproof Room; 2 Housed Exile; The indeterminacy of justice; Phrasing the ethics of the differend; Ethical writing; The haunted house; The Republic; The artist of exile; Remembering the forgotten
The wanderings of the differendThe ethics of the impossible; The call of exile; 3 Homer and Ondaatje; The muse; The narrator; The hero; The tales; The telling; The echoes of silence; The author; Fame; The sublime parade; The trauma of the return; The differend; 4 The Traumatic Sublime; The presentation of the sublime; Trauma; The traumatic sublime; The time of the victim; Impossible testimony; The letters of silence; The excesses of trauma; Traumatic writing; Instances of the traumatic; Traumatic failings; Trauma and the differend; Conclusion; A beginning; Hersey; Summation; The end; Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
This original study examines Jean-François Lyotard's philosophical concept of the differend and details its unexplored implications for literature. it provides a new framework with which to understand the discourse itself, from its Homeric beginnings to postmodern works by authors such as Michael Ondaatje and Jonathan Safran Foer.
Literature-History and criticism.
Aesthetics.
Poststructuralism.
Literature-Philosophy.
Philosophy.
Literary History.
Aesthetics.
Poststructuralism.
Literary Theory.
History of Philosophy.