1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454829403321

Autore

Coulter Colin <1966->

Titolo

Contemporary Northern Irish society [[electronic resource] ] : an introduction / / Colin Coulter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Sterling, Va., : Pluto Press, 1999

ISBN

1-84964-012-2

0-585-42622-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Collana

Contemporary Irish studies

Disciplina

306/.09416

Soggetti

Social conflict - Northern Ireland - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Northern Ireland Social conditions 1969-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 258-273) and index.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910734897203321

Autore

Spanos William V

Titolo

On the Ethical Imperatives of the Interregnum : Essays in Loving Strife from Soren Kierkegaard to Cornel West / / by William V. Spanos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

9783319478715

3319478710

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (153 pages)

Collana

Pivotal Studies in the Global American Literary Imagination, , 2946-4080

Disciplina

190

Soggetti

Comparative literature

Literature - Philosophy

America - Literatures

European literature

Comparative Literature

Literary Theory

North American Literature

European Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Chapter 1: Retrieving Kierkegaard for the Post-9/11 Occasion: A Late Meditation on the Secular -- Chapter 2: Heidegger and Das Nichts: An Autobiographical Meditation on the Question of the Nothing -- Chapter 3: The Enigma of T. S. Eliot: An Autobiographical Essay on the Contradictions between His Poetry and Prose -- Chapter 4: On the Place of Excrement: My Relation to the Poetry of William Butler Yeats -- Chapter 5: Hannah Arendt, Non-Jewish Jew: Our Contemporary Chapter 6: Edward W. Said and William V. Spanos: A Contrapuntal Affiliation -- Chapter 7: Robert Kroetsch, Play, and the Specter: A Meditation on a Friendship -- Chapter 8: A "Mad Generosity: Retrieving John Gardner -- Chapter 9: Robert Creeley, Quintessential American Poet: A Dialogue with a Departed Friend -- Chapter 10: Cornel West: My Black-American Brother -- Index.



Sommario/riassunto

This book is an autobiographical meditation on the way in which the world's population has been transformed into a society of refugees and émigrés seeking -indeed, demanding- an alternative way of political belonging. Focusing on the interregnum we have precariously occupied since the end of World War II-and especially after 9/11- it constitutes a series of genealogical chapters that trace the author's journey from his experience as a prisoner of war in Nazi Germany to the horrific fire-bombing of Dresden in February 1945. In doing so, it explores his search for an intellectual vocation adequate to the dislocating epiphany he experienced in bearing witness to these traumatising events.Having subsequently lost faith in the logic of belonging perpetuated by the nation-state, Spanos charts how he began to look in the rubble of that zero zone for an alternative way of belonging: one in which the old binary -whose imperative was based on the violence of the Friend/enemy opposition- was replaced by a paradoxical loving strife that enriched rather than negated the potential of each side. The chapters in this book trace this errant vocational itinerary, from the author's early undergraduate engagement with Kierkegaard and Heidegger to Cornel West, moving from that disclosive occasion in the zero zone to this present moment. William V. Spanos is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Binghamton University (State University of New York), USA, and the founding editor of boundary 2:a journal of postmodern literature and culture which he edited from 1970-1987. He is the author of over hundred essays and many books on subject ranging from modernist and postmodernist literature, poststructuralist theory, and New Americanist studies.