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Senses and sensation in literature

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Les hommes dans leur grande majorité ne voient pas le monde tel qu'il est ; nombreuses sont leurs erreurs de perception : aussi ont-ils besoin qu'on leur dise quoi penser. Les faiseurs de l'histoire officielle tissent en surface une vérité étrangère à la réalité des faits, et dans la vie quotidienne les faux-semblants président aux rapports humains. À une époque, la nôtre tout particulièrement, où la totalité du sens, et sa cohérence, se défait, au profit d'une atomisation pernicieuse des contenus et des formes, une étude sur les dérives de la perception engage plus largement la question du sens. Que voient la plupart des hommes, et que ne voient-ils pas ? Pourquoi et comment leur perception est-elle gauchie, faussée, entravée, altérée ou aliénée, et quelles sont les conséquences de cette altération ? Si, selon la formule célèbre, la vérité est l'adéquation entre la réalité et l'entendement (rei et intellectus), quels sont pour l'individu et la communauté les effets d'une telle altération ou aliénation du sens ? Autrement dit, pourquoi les choses ne sont-elles pas données, ne se donnent-elles pas, ou ne sont-elle pas perçues comme formant un sens entier et partageable immédiatement par tous ? Une telle question trouve des réponses aussi bien dans la philosophie, la théologie ou l'esthétique, que dans la littérature, la musique et l'art, ou encore dans des sciences telles que la physique, la biologie et la psychiatrie. Les contributeurs réunis par Pascale Hummel et Frédéric Gabriel s'interrogent dans ce volume sur les formes que prend, dans un monde atomisé, le délitement de l'universel, et le gauchissement de l'idée même de perception.

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Hearing Things is a meditation on sound's work in literature. Drawing on the writings of critics and philosophers but especially on the comments of many poets and novelists who have pointed to the role of the ear in writing and reading, it offers a reconsideration of literature itself as an exercise in hearing things. Ranging from Alfred Tennyson to Alice Oswald, Virginia Woolf to Marilynne Robinson, Walter de la Mare to Les Murray, Angela Leighton examines various ways of listening to the printed word, while examining how writers themselves manage the expressivity of sound in their silent writings. Although her focus is on poets from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries--Alfred Tennyson, W. B. Yeats, Walter de la Mare, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, Les Murray, Jorie Graham, and Anne Stevenson--Leighton expands her scope to include letter writing, rhythm, and the difficult relationship between philosophical and literary texts. While her larger argument is always answerable to the specifics of the writer under discussion, one clear message emerges from the whole: literature by its very nature commands listening, and listening is a form of cognitive attention that has often been overlooked.--

Hearing. --- Senses and sensation in literature. --- Spoken word poetry.

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Positions the sensation novel, and nineteenth-century popular fiction more generally, as vital to the history of feelingArgues for the literary significance of this popular formExamines work by lesser-known female writers, such as Caroline Clive, Annie Edwards and Florence WilfordDemonstrates that sensationalism can be traced across a wide range of writers and genres, from spasmodic poetry to the novels of Louisa May AlcottConnects Victorian writing on feeling to contemporary affect theoryNarrative, Affect, and Victorian Sensation: Wilful Bodies argues that Victorian sensation novels - long dismissed as plot-driven, silly, and feminine - develop complex theories of narrative affect, our embodied responses to reading, imagining, and even writing a narrative. The popular sensation novel thus should be understood as a key contribution to the novel's assessment of its own workings, especially the ways in which reading and writing figure as affective acts. Additionally, the book radically expands the field of sensation fiction, taking seriously lesser-known female authors, and reading them alongside a range of writers not typically considered sensational. These novels insist that feelings are not bound to a single body and that bodies generate meaning when they are put in relation to other bodies and systems of knowledge.

English fiction --- Senses and sensation in literature. --- History and criticism.

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Aesthetics in literature --- Aesthetics in literature. --- Aesthetics. --- Senses and sensation in literature --- Senses and sensation in literature. --- Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, --- Aesthetics --- Criticism and interpretation