LEADER 02480nam 22004933a 450 001 9910976769503321 005 20250123130738.0 010 $a9786613854605 010 $a9781283542159 010 $a1283542153 010 $a9780822352693 010 $a0822352699 024 8 $ahttps://doi.org/10.1215/9780822395485 035 $a(CKB)37386717800041 035 $a(ScCtBLL)1ceaac10-5194-40a9-8d62-ebdf3cceccd5 035 $a(Perlego)1467317 035 $a(oapen)doab30998 035 $a(EXLCZ)9937386717800041 100 $a20250123i20082020 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe Deliverance of Others : $eReading Literature in a Global Age /$fDavid Palumbo-Liu 210 $cDuke University Press$d2008 210 1$aDurham, North Carolina, USA :$cDuke University Press,$d2008. 215 $a1 online resource (1 p.) 311 08$a9780822352501 311 08$a0822352508 311 08$a9780822395485 311 08$a0822395487 330 $aThe Deliverance of Others is a compelling reappraisal of the idea that narrative literature can expand readers' empathy. What happens if, amid the voluminous influx of otherness facilitated by globalization, we continue the tradition of valorizing literature for bringing the lives of others to us, admitting them into our world and valuing the difference that they introduce into our lives? In this new historical situation, are we not forced to determine how much otherness is acceptable, as opposed to how much is excessive, disruptive, and disturbing? The influential literary critic David Palumbo-Liu suggests that we can arrive at a sense of responsibility toward others by reconsidering the discourses of sameness that deliver those unlike ourselves to us. Through virtuoso readings of novels by J. M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ruth Ozeki, he shows how notions that would seem to offer some basis for commensurability between ourselves and others. 606 $aLiterary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory$2bisacsh 606 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 615 7$aLiterary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory 615 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism. 700 $aPalumbo-Liu$b David$0871415 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910976769503321 996 $aThe deliverance of others$91945389 997 $aUNINA