par Dancer, Thom
Oxford university press
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Disponible - 820-04 CRI
Niveau 3 - Langues et littératures
Résumé
From climate catastrophe to pandemics and economic crises, the problems facing humanity can feel impossible to solve. Critical Modesty in Contemporary Fiction argues that contemporary fiction helps those who may feel despair at the enormity of such problems - not, as usually assumed, through the ambitious search for grand solutions but rather by cultivating a temperament of modesty. This new temperament of critical modesty locates the fight for freedomand human dignity within the limited and compromised conditions in which we find ourselves. Through readings of Ian McEwan, Zadie Smith, J. M. Coetzee, and David Mitchell, Critical Modesty in Contemporary Fiction advances a claim for the value of temperament in general as a crucial analytic for understanding contemporary experience as well as for a particular temperament of critical modesty as crucial in negotiating the limits of critical and human agency that constitute our daily lives.
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Date
- C 2021
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Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-197) and index
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Langues
- Anglais
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Description matérielle
- x, 204 pages ; 23 cm
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- Epoque
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ISBN
- 0192893327 ;
- 9780192893321
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Indice
- 820-04 Thématique littéraire anglaise
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Origine de la notice:
- OCoLC ;
- YDX ;
- BPI
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Disponible - 820-04 CRI
Niveau 3 - Langues et littératures
