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The Bond of the Furthest Apart : Essays on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Bresson, and Kafka / / Sharon Cameron



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Autore: Cameron Sharon Visualizza persona
Titolo: The Bond of the Furthest Apart : Essays on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Bresson, and Kafka / / Sharon Cameron Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2017]
©2017
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (279 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina: 809
Soggetto topico: Bresson
Dostoevsky
Kafka
Tolstoy
aesthetic
categorical
counterpoint
ethical
ontology
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
Soggetto non controllato: Bresson
Dostoevsky
Kafka
Tolstoy
aesthetic
categorical
counterpoint
ethical
ontology
Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2017.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Animal Sentience: Robert Bresson's Au hasard Balthazar -- 2. "Outside Christ": Dostoevsky's Joy -- 3. The Sight of Death in Tolstoy -- 4. Robert Bresson's Pathos -- 5. Kafka's No-Hope Spaces -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: In the French filmmaker Robert Bresson's cinematography, the linkage of fragmented, dissimilar images challenges our assumption that we know either what things are in themselves or the infinite ways in which they are entangled. The "bond" of Sharon Cameron's title refers to the astonishing connections found both within Bresson's films and across literary works by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Kafka, whose visionary rethinkings of experience are akin to Bresson's in their resistance to all forms of abstraction and classification that segregate aspects of reality. Whether exploring Bresson's efforts to reassess the limits of human reason and will, Dostoevsky's subversions of Christian conventions, Tolstoy's incompatible beliefs about death, or Kafka's focus on creatures neither human nor animal, Cameron illuminates how the repeated juxtaposition of disparate, even antithetical, phenomena carves out new approaches to defining the essence of being, one where the very nature of fixed categories is brought into question. An innovative look at a classic French auteur and three giants of European literature, The Bond of the Furthest Apart will interest scholars of literature, film, ethics, aesthetics, and anyone drawn to an experimental venture in critical thought.
Titolo autorizzato: The Bond of the Furthest Apart  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-226-41406-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910164954803321
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