The Limits of Voice : Montaigne, Schlegel, Kafka

Beschreibung

Neuware - The title of this work derives from Costa-Lima's reading of what is probably the most famous passage in Kant's Third Critique. In Kant's thesis that the results of aesthetic judgment are 'generally communicable but without the mediation of a concept', Costa-Lima discovers the necessity to identify and underscore a silence. This silence - these 'limits of voice' - becomes the complex metonymy for the central theme of this book, literary experience as a case of aesthetic experience. In pursuing this theme, Costa-Lima views aesthetic and literary experience as a historically limited potentiality and examines the limits of aesthetic experience, which comes from its dependence on contextual requirements. The concern about 'limits of voice' is developed on three different levels. First, Costa-Lima focuses, as a historical and systematic condition for aesthetic and literary experience, on subjectivity as the subject's right to speak in his/her own name. Second, he argues that, although historical modes of speaking and experiencing were inscribed into and legitimized by cosmological constructions, subjectivity requires the existence of a context no longer grounded in cosmology, which he refers to as 'the Law'. Third, he postulates the double dependence of literary and aesthetic experience on the emergence of subjectivity and the existence of 'the Law' as its enabling and limiting frame condition. This book answers a challenge that has persisted in literary theory and literary history for almost two decades - how to historicize the concept of literature.

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Bibliografische Details

Titel

The Limits of Voice : Montaigne, Schlegel, Kafka

Verlag

Stanford University Press Apr 1996

Erscheinungsjahr

1996

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN-10

0804725403

ISBN-13

9780804725408

Einband

Buch

Zustand

Neu

Abmessungen

229B x 152 H x 24 T Millimeter Breite: 229 mm, Höhe: 152 mm, Tiefe: 24 mm

Gewicht

680 Gramm

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