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Rendu Loisel Anne-Caroline |
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Les Chants du monde : Le paysage sonore de l’ancienne Mésopotamie / / Anne-Caroline Rendu Loisel |
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Toulouse, : Presses universitaires du Midi, 2019 |
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1 online resource (276 p.) |
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sumérien |
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Il y a longtemps que les voix de l’ancienne Mésopotamie se sont tues, remplacées par les bruits de la modernité. Tout un pan des cultures du Proche-Orient ancien serait-il devenu inaccessible, nous donnant seulement à voir un passé silencieux ? Dégagées des anciennes cités de Syrie et d’Irak, les tablettes d’argile nous permettent pourtant de retrouver l’ambiance sonore qui régnait jadis sur les bords du Tigre et de l’Euphrate, ou dans les rues de Babylone. Les informations vont au-delà de la simple restitution acoustique et nous transmettent les valeurs et les catégories de pensée de ces cultures disparues, dans une forme d’« archéologie du sensible ». Par-delà l’expérience individuelle, tout un réseau de significations, de correspondances et de métaphores, partagé par les membres d’une même communauté, surgit du passé. Le bruit dans une maison est le signe d’une présence démoniaque ; l’individu dans la peine « se lamente comme une colombe » dans la littérature ; ou encore, le son d’une cloche chasse les méchants démons dans les rituels… Prêter l’oreille aux voix des dieux, aux cris des hommes et à tous ces chants de la nature que les habitants de l’antique Mésopotamie percevaient, c’est avant tout pénétrer dans le |
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passé par des chemins encore inexplorés. |
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UNINA9910818150703321 |
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Hale Dorothy J. |
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The novel and the new ethics / / Dorothy J. Hale |
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Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2020] |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The New Ethics and Contemporary Fiction -- 2 Henry James and the Development of the Novelistic Aesthetics of Alterity -- 3 Zadie Smith’s On Beauty: An Ethical Aesthetic as the Problem of Perspectivalism -- 4 J. M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello: The Tradition as the Sum of Its Parts -- 5 The New Ethics in the Academy: The Lesson of the Master, the Master as the Lesson -- Coda: Henry James in the Clinician’s Office -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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For a generation of contemporary Anglo-American novelists, the question "Why write?" has been answered with a renewed will to believe in the ethical value of literature. Dissatisfied with postmodernist parody and pastiche, a broad array of novelist-critics—including J.M. Coetzee, Toni Morrison, Zadie Smith, Gish Jen, Ian McEwan, and Jonathan Franzen—champion the novel as the literary genre most qualified to illuminate individual ethical action and decision-making within complex and diverse social worlds. Key to this contemporary vision of the novel's ethical power is the task of knowing and being responsible to people different from oneself, and so thoroughly have contemporary novelists devoted themselves to the ethics of otherness, that this ethics frequently sets the terms for plot, characterization, and theme. In The |
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Novel and the New Ethics, literary critic Dorothy J. Hale investigates how the contemporary emphasis on literature's social relevance sparks a new ethical description of the novel's social value that is in fact rooted in the modernist notion of narrative form. This "new" ethics of the contemporary moment has its origin in the "new" idea of novelistic form that Henry James inaugurated and which was consolidated through the modernist narrative experiments and was developed over the course of the twentieth century. In Hale's reading, the art of the novel becomes defined with increasing explicitness as an aesthetics of alterity made visible as a formalist ethics. In fact, it is this commitment to otherness as a narrative act which has conferred on the genre an artistic intensity and richness that extends to the novel's every word. |
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