Entangled Voices: Genre and the Religious Construction of the Self - Rilegato

Ruf, Frederick J.

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ISBN 10: 0195102630 ISBN 13: 9780195102635

Casa editrice: OUP USA, 1997

Riassunto

In this book, Ruf tries to understand how the concepts of "voice" and "genre" function in texts, especially religious texts. To this end, he joins literary theorists in the discussion about "narrative". Ruf rejects the idea of genre as a fixed historical form that serves as a template for readers and writers; instead, he suggests that we imagine different genres, whether narrative, lyric, or dramatic, as the expression of different voices. Each voice, he asserts, possesses different key qualities: embodiment, sociality, contextuality, and opacity in the dramatic voice; intimacy, limitation, urgency in lyric; and a "magisterial" quality of comprehensiveness and cohesiveness in narrative. These voices are models for our selves, composing an unruly and unstable multiplicity of selves. Ruf applies his theory of "voice" and "genre" to five texts: Dineson's Out of Africa, Donne's Holy Sonnets, Primo Levi's The Periodic Table, Robert Wilson's Einstein on the Beach, and Coleridge's Biographia Literaria. Through these literary works, he discerns the detailed ways in which a text constructs a voice and, in the process, a self. More importantly, Ruf demonstrates that this process is a religious one, fulfilling the function that religions traditionally assume: that of defining the self and its world.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Frederick J. Ruf is Associate Professor of Theology at Georgetown University.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: OUP USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0195102630
• ISBN 13: 9780195102635
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 136
• Contatto del produttore: Messaggerie Libri; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8.; Assago Milano; 20090; Italia