1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910760597503321

Titolo

A Responsibility to the World : Saramago, Politics, Philosophy / / Burghard Baltrusch, Carlo Salzani, and Kristof Vanhoutte (editors)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Germany : , : Frank & Timme GmbH, Verlag für wissenschaftliche Literatur, , [2023]

©2023

ISBN

3-7329-8985-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (0 pages)

Collana

Ibero-Romance Studies in Literature and Translatology - Studies in Contemporary Literature ; ; Volume 9

Disciplina

869.342

Soggetti

Novelists, Portuguese

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Introduction -- Observing, Acting, Intervening: Saramago's Responsibility to the World -- A Responsibility to the World -- Utopia/Dystopia: José Saramago and the Regency Apocalypse -- Islands and Boats:  (Lucid?) Meditations on a Stone Utopia and a Naval Heterotopia  in the Work of Jose Saramago -- Raised from the Ground and  the Spectre of Revolution -- Seeing Populism in Seeing -- The Color of Democracy -- Saramago, Agamben, and the 'Invention of an Epidemic' -- Debord and Saramago:  Allegories of the Society of Spectacle in Blindness and The Cave -- Approaching Death and Ethics  in José Saramago through  Blimunda's Memorial -- A Literary Autopsy:  An Anthropological and Medical Approach to Saramago's Oeuvre -- Canines:  Unlikely Protagonists in the Novels of Coetzee, Saramago and Shibli -- The Temptations of Anthropomorphism, or, How an Elephant Can Help Us Become Human -- What is a Book? -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index.