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Prosaic Desires: Modernist Knowledge, Boredom, Laughter, and Anticipation

Sara Crangle

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Description:Exploring a variety of everyday human longings as they arise in modernist fiction, this book poses a direct challenge to psychoanalytic accounts that characterize desire as sexual or powerful.Using continental philosophy as its framework, "Prosaic Desires" contends that human longing is as endless in kind as it is in manifestation. It reads Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, but relies primarily on the thinking of Emmanuel Levinas, who radically argues that the self is defined by an endless longing for the other. Extending Levinasian theory, "Prosaic Desires" locates desire-driven shifts from the self to other in modernist literature. These banal longings lie within the poles of sexuality and power and include the desire to know and escape boredom, as well as risibility and anticipation. Authors include Joyce, Woolf, Stein, and Beckett, all of whom discernibly move away from self-absorbed, grand narratives toward other-based, evanescent longings. Central to their writings is the conflicted relationship between daily, finite experience and the limitlessness possibility of human desire.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Prosaic Desires: Modernist Knowledge, Boredom, Laughter, and Anticipation. To get started finding Prosaic Desires: Modernist Knowledge, Boredom, Laughter, and Anticipation, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Exploring a variety of everyday human longings as they arise in modernist fiction, this book poses a direct challenge to psychoanalytic accounts that characterize desire as sexual or powerful.Using continental philosophy as its framework, "Prosaic Desires" contends that human longing is as endless in kind as it is in manifestation. It reads Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, but relies primarily on the thinking of Emmanuel Levinas, who radically argues that the self is defined by an endless longing for the other. Extending Levinasian theory, "Prosaic Desires" locates desire-driven shifts from the self to other in modernist literature. These banal longings lie within the poles of sexuality and power and include the desire to know and escape boredom, as well as risibility and anticipation. Authors include Joyce, Woolf, Stein, and Beckett, all of whom discernibly move away from self-absorbed, grand narratives toward other-based, evanescent longings. Central to their writings is the conflicted relationship between daily, finite experience and the limitlessness possibility of human desire.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Prosaic Desires: Modernist Knowledge, Boredom, Laughter, and Anticipation. To get started finding Prosaic Desires: Modernist Knowledge, Boredom, Laughter, and Anticipation, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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