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The Deliverance of Others : Reading Literature in a Global Age.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (242 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822395485
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 809/.93355
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Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. When Otherness Overcomes Reason -- 2. Whose Story Is It? -- 3. Art: A Foreign Exchange -- 4. Pacific Oceanic Feeling: Affect, Otherness, Mediation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: The distinguished literary critic David Palumbo-Liu posits reading literature as an ethical act, a way of thinking through our relations to others in the age of globalization.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. When Otherness Overcomes Reason -- 2. Whose Story Is It? -- 3. Art: A Foreign Exchange -- 4. Pacific Oceanic Feeling: Affect, Otherness, Mediation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

The distinguished literary critic David Palumbo-Liu posits reading literature as an ethical act, a way of thinking through our relations to others in the age of globalization.

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