Weakness : a literary and philosophical history /: a literary and philosophical history. ([2012])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Michael O'Sullivan.
• Authors: O'Sullivan, Michael, 1974-
• Contents: Introduction -- Part One. Philosophy. 1. Fragile goodness and weakness of the will -- 2. "Weakness is the means dao employs": daoism and weakness -- 3. The flesh is weak: incarnating the word -- 4. Nietzsche's revaluation of power and Kierkegaard's despair of weakness -- 5. Why is Derrida's sign violent? grammatology and a "force of weakness" -- 6. Is there a "weaker vessel?": reshaping "phallic identity" with "womb vision" -- Part Two. Literature. 7. Recognizing limits: Keats's "weak mortality" and Wordsworth's "frailties of the world" -- 8. A sentimental man: Dickens, involuntary narration and the "experience of the common" -- 9. "Words of silent power": Joyce, kindness and life's "high carnage of semperidentity" -- 10. Beckett and "the authentic weakness of being" -- 11. Vulnerability, narrative authority and "the animal" in the work of J.M. Coetzee -- Conclusion: humane weakness.
• Publisher Details: London New York : Continuum
• Publication Date: 2012
• Copyright Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (214 pages)
• Subjects: 809.93353; Power (Philosophy) in literature; Literature and society; Self in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM -- Gay & Lesbian; Literature and society; Power (Philosophy) in literature; Self in literature; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441195647; 1441195645; 9781441178794; 1441178791; 9781441162991; 1441162992
• Related ISBNs: 9781472568359; 1472568354; 9781280595967; 1280595965
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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