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"Hope and future are not the terms with which James Joyce has usually been read, but this book paints a picture of Joyce's fiction in which hope and future assume the primary colours. Rando explores how Joyce's texts, as early as Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man , delineate a complex hope that is oriented toward the future with restlessness, dissatisfaction, and invention. He examines how Joyce envisions alternatives to the prevailing conventions of hope throughout his works and, in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake , develops formal techniques of spatializing hope to contemplate it from all sides. Casting fresh light on the ways in which hope animates key aspects of Joyce's approach to literary content and form, Rando moves beyond the limitations of negative critique and literary historicism to present a Joyce who thinks agilely about the future, politics, and possibility."--
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Hope for us has a positive connotation. Yet it was criticized in classical antiquity as a distraction from the present moment, as the occasion for irrational and self-destructive thinking, and as a presumption against the gods. To what extent do arguments against hope today remain useful? If hope sounds to us like a good thing, that reaction stems from a progressive political tradition grounded in the French Revolution, aspects of Romantic literature and the influence of the Abrahamic faiths. Ranging both wide and deep, Adam Potkay examines the cases for and against hope found in literature from antiquity to the present. Drawing imaginatively on several fields and creatively juxtaposing poetry, drama, and novels alongside philosophy, theology and political theory, the author brings continually fresh insights to a subject of perennial interest. This is a bold and illuminating new treatment of a long-running literary debate as complex as it is compelling.
Hope in literature. --- Hope. --- Emotions
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Hoffnung als einer Form der Kontingenzbewältigung kommt im menschlichen Existenzzusammenhang eine zentrale Funktion zu, weshalb sie in zahlreichen theoretischen und literarischen Texten verhandelt wird. Dennoch bildet eine wissenschaftliche Analyse des Hoffnungsdiskurses bislang ein Desiderat. Der vorliegende Band verfolgt ausgehend von diesem Befund eine doppelte Zielsetzung: In einer historischen Perspektivierung nimmt er zunächst eine Archäologie des Hoffnungsdiskurses vor, indem wesentliche kulturgeschichtliche Stationen von den mythischen Anfängen bis in die Spätmoderne nachgezeichnet und Traditionsstränge offengelegt werden. In systematischer Hinsicht erfolgt dann eine typologische Annäherung an Verfahrensweisen mit der Hoffnung in Philosophie und Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts. Denn in der Spätmoderne mit ihren historischen Bedrohungen und Katastrophen findet eine paradigmatische Umwertung der Hoffnung statt. Bislang gültige Attribute wie Komplexitätsreduktion und Linearität werden verabschiedet. Stattdessen rückt nun vermehrt der ungewisse Prozess des Hoffens in den Fokus, der in absurden, dialektischen und paradoxen Denkmodellen seinen Ausdruck findet und eine sprachliche Annäherung an die unsichere Zukunft ermöglicht.
Hope. --- Hope in literature. --- Emotions --- 20th century. --- coping with contingency. --- future.
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"Introduction For and Against Hope Is hope a virtue? Not necessarily. We hope for many things, some of them good, some bad. What we do or don't do about our hopes may also reflect on us, for better or for worse. One might hope for world peace or an end to poverty, and these appear to be worthy if improbable objects. Yet hoping for such things is not a good, or much of a good, in and of itself. Merely passive hope scarcely seems a virtue; it may appear an idle daydream. Hope for the good becomes meritorious when coupled with exertion: "I am hopefully helping, in my small way, to make good things happen." Conversely, hope, passive or active, can be for bad or morally dubious things: "I hope he breaks a leg." Not that all people would find this a bad hope. Hope for revenge may seem perfectly acceptable, and failure to avenge a slight dishonorable or shameful. There are hopes that fewer would condone: for instance, in President Truman's account, the Nazis' "hope to enslave the world."8 Yet people can and do hope for the success of persecuting regimes, the elimination of foes and foreigners. Envy, hatred, revenge, selfaggrandizement, and injustice are no less salient as motives and objects of hoping than their opposing virtues"--
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Classical literature --- Classical literature. --- Greek literature --- Greek literature. --- Hope in art. --- Hope in art. --- Hope in literature. --- Hope in literature. --- Latin literature --- Latin literature. --- History and criticism --- History and criticism --- History and criticism
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Counseling --- Counseling. --- Hope in literature. --- Korean language materials. --- Mental health consultation --- Mental health consultation. --- Psychological consultation --- Psychological consultation. --- Korea (South).
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Austrian literature --- Faith in literature. --- Hope in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Aichinger, Ilse, --- Aichinger, Ilse. --- Aichinger, Ilse. --- Bachmann, Ingeborg, --- Bachmann, Ingeborg, --- An die Sonne. --- Spiegelgeschichte.
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"Hope Isn't Stupid is the first study to interrogate the neglected connections between affect and the practice of utopia in contemporary American literature. Although these concepts are rarely theorized together, it is difficult to fully articulate utopia without understanding how affects circulate within utopian texts. Moving away from science fiction--the genre in which utopian visions are often located--author Sean Grattan resuscitates the importance of utopianism in recent American literary history. Doing so enables him to assert the pivotal role contemporary American literature has to play in allowing us to envision alternatives to global neoliberal capitalism. Novelists William S. Burroughs, Dennis Cooper, John Darnielle, Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, and Colson Whitehead are deeply invested in the creation of utopian possibilities. A return to reading the utopian wager in literature from the postmodern to the contemporary period reinvigorates critical forms that imagine reading as an act of communication, friendship, solace, and succor. These forms also model richer modes of belonging than the diluted and impoverished ones on display in the neoliberal present. Simultaneously, by linking utopian studies and affect studies, Grattan's work resists the tendency for affect studies to codify around the negative, instead reorienting the field around the messy, rich, vibrant, and ambivalent affective possibilities of the world. Hope Isn't Stupid insists on the centrality of utopia not only in American literature, but in American life as well"--
Utopias in literature --- American fiction --- American fiction --- Affect (Psychology) in literature --- Hope in literature --- Ambivalence in literature --- History and criticism --- History and criticism
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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, --- Epigrams, Latin --- Hope in literature --- Hope --- Emotions --- Latin epigrams --- History and criticism --- Pseudo-Seneca. --- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus --- Sénèque --- Authorship. --- Seneca --- Hope in literature. --- Epigrams, Latin. --- Épigrammes latines --- Espérance --- Histoire et critique. --- Dans la littérature. --- Critique et interprétation. --- Annaeus Seneca, Lucius, --- Seneca, Annaeus, --- Seneca, --- Seneca, L. A. --- Seneca, Lucio Anneo, --- Seneka, --- Seneka, L. Annėĭ, --- Sénèque, --- סנקא, לוציוס אנאוס --- Pseudo-Seneca --- Épigrammes latines --- Espérance --- Dans la littérature. --- Sénèque --- Critique et interprétation.
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