The Philosopher And The Storyteller
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The Philosopher And The Storyteller
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Author : Charles R. Embry
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 2008-04-22
The Philosopher And The Storyteller written by Charles R. Embry and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-22 with Philosophy categories.
Throughout his philosophical career, Eric Voegelin had much to say about literature in both his published work and his private letters. Many of his most trenchant comments regarding the analysis of literature appear in his correspondence with critic Robert Heilman, and, through his familiarity with that exchange, Charles Embry has gained extraordinary insight into Voegelin’s literary views. The Philosopher and the Storyteller is the first book-length study of the literary dimensions of Voegelin’s philosophy—and the first to use his philosophy to read specific novels. Bringing to bear a thorough familiarity with both Voegelin and great literature, Embry shows that novels—like myths, philosophy, and religious texts—participate in the human search for the truth of existence, and that reading literature within a Voegelinian framework exposes the existential and philosophical dimensions of those works. Embry focuses on two key elements of Voegelin’s philosophy as important for reading literature: metaxy, the in-between of human consciousness, and metalepsis, human participation in the community of being. He shows how Voegelin’s philosophy in general is rooted in literary-symbolic interpretation and, therefore, provides a foundation for the interpretation of literature. And finally he explores Voegelin’s insistence that the soundness of literary criticism lies in the consciousness of the reader. Embry then offers Voegelinian readings that vividly illustrate the principles of this approach. First he considers Graham Swift’s Waterland as an example of the human search for meaning in the modern world, then he explores the deformation and recovery of reality in Heimito von Doderer’s long and complex novel The Demons, and finally he examines how Flannery O’Connor’s The Violent Bear It Away mythically expresses the flux of divine presence in what Voegelin calls the Time of the Tale. The Philosopher and the Storyteller unites fiction and philosophy in the common quest to understand our nature, our world, and our cosmos. A groundbreaking exploration of the connection between Voegelin and twentieth-century literature, this book opens a new window on the philosopher’s thought and will motivate readers to study other novels in light of this approach.
The Storyteller Essays
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Author : Walter Benjamin
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2019-07-23
The Storyteller Essays written by Walter Benjamin and has been published by New York Review of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-23 with Literary Collections categories.
A new translation of philosopher Walter Benjamin's work as it pertains to his famous essay, "The Storyteller," this collection includes short stories, book reviews, parables, and as a selection of writings by other authors who had an influence on Benjamin's work. “The Storyteller” is one of Walter Benjamin’s most important essays, a beautiful and suggestive meditation on the relation between narrative form, social life, and individual existence—and the product of at least a decade’s work. What might be called the story of The Storyteller Essays starts in 1926, with a piece Benjamin wrote about the German romantic Johann Peter Hebel. It continues in a series of short essays, book reviews, short stories, parables, and even radio shows for children. This collection brings them all together to give readers a new appreciation of how Benjamin’s thinking changed and ripened over time, while including several key readings of his own—texts by his contemporaries Ernst Bloch and Georg Lukács; by Paul Valéry; and by Herodotus and Montaigne. Finally, to bring things around, there are three short stories by “the incomparable Hebel” with whom the whole intellectual adventure began.
The Last Storyteller
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Author : Thomas Jerome Baker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-04-01
The Last Storyteller written by Thomas Jerome Baker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-01 with categories.
There can only be one. The Last Storyteller will control the power of "Lapis Philosophicus", the Philosopher's Stone. That power is gold, which means wealth and riches beyond the capacity to count. But more importantly, the Stone means immortality. In this fast moving stories, you meet the Storytellers who vie for the glory of being, the Last Storyteller.
Levinas Storytelling And Anti Storytelling
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Author : Will Buckingham
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-02-14
Levinas Storytelling And Anti Storytelling written by Will Buckingham and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-14 with Philosophy categories.
The telling of tales is always a troubling business, and the way in which we tell stories about ourselves and about others always involves a degree of ethical risk. Levinas, Storytelling and Anti-Storytelling explores the troubling nature of storytelling through a reading of the work of Emmanuel Levinas. Levinas is a thinker who has a complex relationship with literature and with storytelling. At times, Levinas is a teller of powerful tales about ethics; at other times, on ethical grounds, he disavows storytelling altogether. Levinas, Storytelling and Anti-Storytelling explores the tensions between philosophy and storytelling that run throughout Levinas's work. By asking about how Levinas tells and untells his stories, and by risking the telling of tales that Levinas himself does not dare to tell, this book opens up new ways of thinking about Levinas's ethics of responsibility. It may be, as Levinas often insists, that storytelling presents us with ethical dangers; but Levinas, Storytelling and Anti-Storytelling makes the case that an ethics of responsibility may demand that, whilst mindful of these dangers, we nevertheless continually seek out new stories to tell about ourselves, about others and about the world.
The Storyteller
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Author : Walter Benjamin
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2016-07-26
The Storyteller written by Walter Benjamin and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-26 with Fiction categories.
A beautiful collection of the legendary thinker’s short stories The Storyteller gathers for the first time the fiction of the legendary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, best known for his groundbreaking studies of culture and literature, including Illuminations, One-Way Street and The Arcades Project. His stories revel in the erotic tensions of city life, cross the threshold between rational and hallucinatory realms, celebrate the importance of games, and delve into the peculiar relationship between gambling and fortune-telling, and explore the themes that defined Benjamin. The novellas, fables, histories, aphorisms, parables and riddles in this collection are brought to life by the playful imagery of the modernist artist and Bauhaus figure Paul Klee.
Decameron And The Philosophy Of Storytelling
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Author : Richard Kuhns
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2005-05-11
Decameron And The Philosophy Of Storytelling written by Richard Kuhns and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-05-11 with Literary Collections categories.
In this creative and engaging reading, Richard Kuhns explores the ways in which Decameron'ssexual themes lead into philosophical inquiry, moral argument, and aesthetic and literary criticism. As he reveals the stories' many philosophical insights and literary pleasures, Kuhns also examines Decameronin the context of the nature of storytelling, its relationship to other classic works of literature, and the culture of trecento Italy. Stories and storytelling are to be interpreted in terms of a wider cultural context that includes masks, metamorphosis, mythic themes, and character analysis, all of which Boccaccio explores with wit and subtlety. As a storyteller, Boccaccio represents himself as literary pimp, conceiving the relationship between storyteller and audience in sexual terms within a tradition that goes back as far as Socrates' conversations with the young Athenians. As a whole, Boccaccio's great collection of stories creates a trenchant criticism of the ideas that dominated his social and cultural world. Addressed as it is to women who were denied opportunities for education, the author's stories create a university of wise and culturally observant texts. He teaches that comic, religious, sexual, and artistic themes can be seen to function as metaphors for hidden and often dangerous unorthodox thoughts. Kuhns suggests that Decameronis one of the first self-conscious creations of what we today call "a total work of art." Throughout the stories, Boccaccio creates a detailed picture of the Florentine trecento cultural world. Giotto, Buffalmacco, and other great painters of Boccaccio's time appear in the stories. Their works and the paintings that surround the characters as they prepare to leave the plague-ridden city, with their representations of Dante, Aquinas, and other thinkers, are essential to understanding the ways the stories work with other works of art and illuminate and enlarge interpretations of Boccaccio's book.
Levinas Storytelling And Anti Storytelling
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Author : Will Buckingham
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-04-11
Levinas Storytelling And Anti Storytelling written by Will Buckingham and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-11 with Philosophy categories.
An exploration of philosophical storytelling in the work of the French-Lithuanian philosopher Emmanuel Levinas.
The Storyteller
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Author : Walter Benjamin
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2016-07-26
The Storyteller written by Walter Benjamin and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-26 with Fiction categories.
The Storyteller gathers for the first time the fiction of the legendary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, best known for his groundbreaking studies of culture and literature, including Illuminations, One-Way Street and The Arcades Project. His stories revel in the erotic tensions of city life, cross the threshold between rational and hallucinatory realms, celebrate the importance of games, and delve into the peculiar relationship between gambling and fortune-telling, and explore the themes that defined Benjamin. The novellas, fables, histories, aphorisms, parables and riddles in this collection are brought to life by the playful imagery of the modernist artist and Bauhaus figure Paul Klee.
The Return Of The Storyteller In Contemporary Fiction
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Author : Areti Dragas
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2014-08-31
The Return Of The Storyteller In Contemporary Fiction written by Areti Dragas and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
Focusing on the figure of the storyteller, this study breaks new ground in the approach to reading contemporary literature by identifying a growing interest in storytelling. For the last thirty years contemporary fiction has been influenced by theoretical discourses, textuality and writing. Only since the rise of postcolonialism have academic critics been more overtly interested in stories, where high theory frameworks are less applicable. However, as we move through various contemporary contexts engaging with postcolonial identities and hybridity, to narratives of disability and evolutionary accounts of group and individual survival, a common feature of all is the centrality of story, which posits both the idea of survival and the passing on of traditions. This book closely examines this preoccupation with story and storytelling through a close reading of sixteen contemporary international novels written in English which are about actual 'storytellers', revealing how death of the author has given birth to the storyteller.
The Secret Of The Storyteller
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Author : EM Richter
language : en
Publisher: BalboaPress
Release Date : 2013-07-12
The Secret Of The Storyteller written by EM Richter and has been published by BalboaPress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-12 with Fiction categories.
The Secret of the Storyteller follows the magical journey of Selena Silver, a naive, young flight attendant, as she finds herself embroiled in a Jerusalem uprising. Seeking refuge from the riots, she hides in the home of Sophia, a mystical oracle, who reveals to her ancient secrets that have been hidden for millennia and equally hidden political agendas. This long lost knowledge has the power to shift the paradigm of humanity into a new era of peace, possibility, and hope. Brimming with esoteric wisdom and told with an enigmatic voice, The Secret of the Storyteller is a profoundly moving narrative adventure.