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Suffering in literature

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This book suggests that a listening to suffering may profit from a literary hearing, and vice versa. It is not only that literature tells of suffering but that suffering may tell us something about the nature of literature. The author examines works and texts that range from medicine to literature, philosophy to photography, prose to poetry, and from Antigone to W.H. Auden. The book presents individual instances, real and literary, of physical and mental wounds and diseases, of pain and death, endured by a little girl in a burn ward, a boy wounded in the war in Bosnia, a nameless Vietnamese woman, Job, Antigone; as well as a number of mostly lyrical elegists: a survivor of the Holocaust, a wife bereft of her husband, a daughter bereft of her father. The autonomy of each chapter suggests that experiences of suffering are always incomparable. One must in every instance begin again and enter the scene of suffering on its own terms: the radically individual nature of suffering is prior or past to any theory or set of generalizations.

Suffering in literature. --- Suffering in art.

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Suffering in literature. --- Philosophy of mind.

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How are the numerous member states of the European Union today to reach proper consensus on an eventual common EU social model? In this meditative and reflective philosophical, literary and social inquiry, first presented as invited lectures at the Institute for European Studies of the Jagiellonian University, Peter McCormick highlights the still largely overlooked conceptual and linguistic resources of the distinctive European high modernist poetry of suffering for freshly rearticulating some of the most basic moral and ethical values at the historical roots of European civilization. Against contrasted readings of modernity in the works of both analytic and hermeneutic philosophers, successive studies investigate the figures of moral discourse, moral perception, and both moral motivation and ethical emancipation in the poetry of the Nobel Laureats, T.S. Eliot, Paul Valéry, and Eugenio Montale. The result is the renewed availability of richly resourceful formulations of fundamental European values for stimulating the ongoing work of achieving appropriate political consensus for a future harmonized European Union social policy.

Suffering in literature. --- Modernism (Literature) --- Crepuscolarismo --- Literary movements --- Themes, motives.

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Après la guerre, une réorientation radicale intervient dans la prose de Samuel Beckett : ce changement a trait avant tout à la souffrance. Celle-ci va contaminer tous les aspects de l'expérience humaine. Beckett semble privilégier de plus en plus une histoire débordant les seuls cataclysmes du XXe siècle : l'histoire anonyme et silencieuse d'une humanité torturée depuis des temps immémoriaux et vouée à un sort incompréhensible. Cette lecture de l'œuvre beckettienne s'imprègne des études de Paul Ricœur sur l'identité et le souvenir et aborde la prose de Beckett comme une écriture de la mémoire. Ainsi Watt , dont la genèse est retracée au travers d'un examen des manuscrits, est considéré ici comme un paradigme dans l'écriture de la mémoire et de la souffrance. D'autre part, les 'German Diaries', écrits en 1936-7, témoignent de l'intérêt profond de Beckett pour la peinture. Cette étude se penche sur ses réflexions sur l'art et ses réactions face aux icônes religieuses dans le contexte de la souffrance. Les écrits de Ricœur permettent de mieux examiner la manière dont l'œuvre beckettienne se trouve de plus en plus au carrefour d'identités privées et plurielles. Au travers de ces études, la question de la disparition de l'individu, remplacée graduellement par une histoire de la souffrance collective, peut être réévaluée.

Beckett, Samuel --- Beckett, Samuel, --- Lijden in de literatuur --- Souffrance dans la littérature --- Suffering in literature --- Criticism and interpretation --- Leid (Motiv) --- Suffering in literature. --- Beckett, Samuel, - 1906-1989