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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Named Person: | Maurice Blanchot; Samuel Beckett; James Joyce; Blanchot; Beckett; Joyce; Samuel Beckett; Maurice Blanchot; Maurice Blanchot; Samuel Beckett |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Herschel Farbman |
ISBN: | 9780823228652 0823228657 |
OCLC Number: | 261960166 |
Description: | pages cm |
Responsibility: | Herschel Farbman. |
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Focusing on dreams and their impact in the many genres of fiction and non-fiction, Farbman offers insight into the real world as well as the literary one with his writing. * -The Literary Shelf * Powerfully conceived and beautifully written . . . An important contribution to the theory of dreams and a new thinking of ethics. -- -Eyal Peretz * Indiana University * A far-reaching, far-seeing work based on varied and serious reading. -- -Paul Fry * Yale University * . . .Generates some important insights on Joyce's last work. * -James Joyce Quarterly * The Other Night is a series of brilliant and lucid readings. But beyond that, Farbman brings his very broad knowledge of these demanding authors to bear such that he transforms commentary on individual key figures of twentieth-century European thought into a generalized commentary on that era. Farbman engages the questions of language, subjectivity, and the difficult link of these to the fundaments of an ethics. He foregrounds the issue of dream, which proves to be inextricable from a meditation on language and responsibility. How are we to begin to contemplate the urgency of responsibility in dreams of all places, and this in the writings of authors whose reflections never gain the status of certainty, he asks. This is an elegant piece of rigorous and original critical thinking. -- -Carol Jacobs * Yale University * ...undoubtedly a piece that turns the wheels of the thinking and dreaming mind by drawing lucid parallels between the dream, responsibility, ethics, ad language. * -LA Dream Interpretation Examiner * A beautifully written, often moving account of the status of the dream in twentieth-century writing. -- -Pericles Lewis * Yale University * The Other Night is as demanding as the literature it engages with, and is not for the faint-hearted. Farbman's strength lies in the rigorous and detailed linguistic analyses of these lengthy, complex texts, to which he brings both considerable and considerate knowledge. * -The Times Literary Supplement * This book about restlessness generates a restlessness of its own, a ferment of ideas, hints, and possibilities. * -Postmodern Culture * Read more...


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