The Distant Relation breaks down the artificial division between philosophy and literature by weaving contemporary philosophic arguments through close readings of Carpentier, Rulfo, Paz, and Garcia Marquez. Thomson draws the reader into the largely uninhabited space between philosophy and literature, providing new critical strategies that allow text and reader to respond to the very distance they share. These strategies involve a reconceptualization of distance that recognizes the productive and affirmative nature of separation.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 863
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 0773510281 9780773564213
- LCCN
- PQ7082.N7
- LCCN Item number
- T45 2000eb
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- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xxv, 163 p.)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00200453 (OCoLC)181843425 (CaOOCEL)400754
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Table of Contents
- Contents 12
- Acknowledgments 14
- Introduction: Towards a New Philosophy of Relation 16
- SECTION 1 BEING TOO GREAT FOR WORDS 28
- Otherness and the Ineffable 30
- Before Me, I Turned Aside: Opacity 31
- Transcendence and Extimacy: The Extimate Relation 38
- Exposure: A Flash for the Night 41
- SECTION 2 INTERLUDE 50
- Los pasos perdidos: Absence and Writing 55
- The Duplicity of Fiction 66
- Fiction's Absent Source 82
- Duplicity and Absence in El acoso 88
- SECTION 3 RETURN TO OPACITY 100
- Foreignness as an Emblem of Opacity 102
- The Strangers of La hojarasca 104
- Ventriloquism: Voicing and Speech in El otoño del patriarca 109
- SECTION 4 THE TIME OF THE BETWEEN 122
- The Persistence of the Past 124
- Revolt and Resurrection in El laberinto de la soledad 140
- The Place over the Embers 145
- Dead Silent: Pedro Páramo 147
- SECTION 5 POSTPONEMENT: IN LIEU OF AN ENDING 164
- Simultaneity, Language, History 167
- Bibliography 176
- Index 188
- A 188
- B 188
- C 188
- D 188
- E 188
- F 188
- G 188
- H 189
- I 189
- L 189
- M 189
- N 189
- O 189
- P 189
- R 189
- S 190
- T 190
- U 190
- V 190
- W 190
