Literary Essays (Meridian) (Paperback)
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|Short Description for Literary Essays Bloch's literary essays are not, strictly speaking, "theoretical" pieces, certainly not applications to literature of some pre-existing conceptual apparatus. Collectively they represent a field of experiment in which a thinker of astonishing originality exposes his thought to the provocation of literary, musical, and artistic works, but also to such phenomena as advertisements, landscapes, cliches...
Full description- Publisher: Stanford University Press
- Published: 31 January 1999
- Format: Paperback 556 pages
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- Categories: Literary Essays | Literary Theory | Literary Studies: From C 1900 - | History Of Western Philosophy | Philosophy: Aesthetics
- ISBN 13: 9780804727075 ISBN 10: 0804727074
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Full description for Literary Essays
Bloch's literary essays are not, strictly speaking, "theoretical" pieces, certainly not applications to literature of some pre-existing conceptual apparatus. Collectively they represent a field of experiment in which a thinker of astonishing originality exposes his thought to the provocation of literary, musical, and artistic works, but also to such phenomena as advertisements, landscapes, cliches and obsessive images, films, and forms of interaction in country and city.The pieces gathered here, which date from 1913 to 1964, are held together by Bloch's view of the human as being always beyond itself, as anticipating itself and never positively there. This thrust beyond the horizon of positivity expresses itself in wishes, hopes, fantasies, dreams, imaginative creations, and utopian projects.
