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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785279603321

Autore

Hughes Robert <1968->

Titolo

Ethics, aesthetics, and the beyond of language [[electronic resource] /] / Robert Hughes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2010

ISBN

1-4384-3195-3

1-4416-6843-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 p.)

Collana

SUNY series, insinuations

Disciplina

813.001

Soggetti

American fiction - 18th century - History and criticism

American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Ethics in literature

Aesthetics in literature

Psychology and literature

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Sleepy Hollow: fearful pleasures and the nightmare of history -- Lacan and the beyond of language: from art to ethics -- Brown's Wieland and the ethical circumscription of death -- Heideggerian ethics: the voice of art and the call to being -- Levinas: art and the transcendence of solitude -- Endings: ethics, enigma, and address in The marble faun -- Riven: Badiou's ethical subject and the event of art as trauma.