Prosaics And Other Provocations —— Skeptical Answers To Accursed Questions

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ISBN: 9781618111616 出版年：2013 页码：301 Gary Saul Morson Academic Studies Press

Gary Saul Morson ideas about life and literature have long inspired, annoyed, and provoked specialists and general readers. His work on 鈥減rosaics鈥?(his coinage) argues that life defining events are not grand but ordinary, and that the world fundamental state is mess. Viewing time as a 鈥渇ield of possibilities,鈥?he maintains that contingency and freedom are real. To represent open time, some masterpieces have developed an alternative to structure and require a 鈥減rosaics of process.鈥?Morson curmudgeonly alter ego, Alicia Chudo, invents the discipline of misanthropology,鈥?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 shortest genres and to quotation in general.