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1 online resource (298 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Ars Rossica
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Ars Rossika.
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Includes index. |
| Summary |
Gary Saul Morson's ideas about life and literature have long inspired, annoyed, and provoked specialists and general readers. His work on "prosaics" (his coinage) argues that life's defining events are not grand but ordinary, and that the world's fundamental state is mess. Viewing time as a "field of possibilities," he maintains that contingency and freedom are real. To represent open time, some masterpieces have developed an alternative to structure and require a "prosaics of process." Morson's curmudgeonly alter ego, Alicia Chudo, invents the discipline of misanthropology," which explores human voices from voyeurism to violence. Reflecting on his legendarily popular courses, Morson argues that what literature teaches better than anything else is empathy. Himself an aphorist, Morson offers a witty approach to literature's shortest genres and to quotation in general. |
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Part one: Overture -- What is Prosaics? -- Part two: Narrativeness -- The Prosaics of process -- The vision of poetics and product -- The counter-tradition: presentness and process -- Outlining a Prosaics of process -- Part three: What is Misanthropology? -- Misanthropology: Voyeurism and human nature / Alicia Chudo -- Misanthropology, continued: disgust, violence, and more on voyeurism / Alicia Chudo -- Another look at voyeurism -- Identification -- Laughter and disgust -- Misanthropology in verse: an onegin of our times / Alicia Chudo -- Part four: What is literary Education? -- Novelistic empathy, and how to teach it -- Part five: What is wit? -- Contingency, games, and wit. |
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This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode |
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JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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English. |
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Fiction -- History and criticism.
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Fiction. |
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Prose literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Prose literature. |
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Events (Philosophy) in literature -- History and criticism.
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Events (Philosophy) in literature. |
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Empathy in literature -- History and criticism.
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Empathy in literature. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Fiction.
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Fiction.
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Grave, Ivan.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Morson, Gary Saul. Prosaics and other provocations : empathy, open time, and the novel. Brighton, Massachusetts : Academic Studies Press, ©2013 xxiii, 274 pages Ars Rossika. 9781618111616 |
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9781618111838 (electronic book) |
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1618111833 (electronic book) |
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9781618116758 (electronic book) |
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1618116754 (electronic book) |
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9781618111616 |
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1618111612 |
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