Literature, History, Choice the Principle of Alternative History in Literature (S.Y. Agnon, The City with All That is Therein)
Starting with a discussion on the elements of the genre of alternative (counterfactual) history and on its place between the poles of historical determinism and relativism, this book develops a literary theory of the historical alternativeness principle and applies it to the reading of The City with...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2013.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b35601553*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; Mythological Roots of Historical AlternativenessThinking; Motivation of Historical-Alternative Writing; Alternative History on the Map of Modern FantasyLiterature; Alternative History as Rhetoric Act; Mistakes and Missed Opportunities; CHAPTER TWO; Is Alternative History Based on Historical Relativism?; Is Alternative History a Model?; Is Alternative History Normalization of HistoricalMemory?; Is Alternative History Based on a Binary Modelof Extrapolation-Analogy?; CHAPTER THREE; Time, Narrative, and Reading.
- "Alternative Reading" as MethodologyLevels of Historical Alternativeness: Myth, Personality, Choice, and Mode of Choice; CHAPTER FOUR; Possibilistic Theory of Myth and Mythopoesis; Ethical and Chaotic Models of Mythopoesis; Counterfactual History and Determinism; Time and the Other. Retrospection and Anticipation; Difference and Repetition. Origination of Timeand Origination of Alternativeness; CHAPTER FIVE; Rhetoric; From Rhetoric as Untranslatability to Rhetoricas Alternativeness; Rhetoric and Incompleteness of MythopoeticRealization; Miracle as Alternativeness and Alternativenessas Miracle.
- CHAPTER SIXPersonality, Identity, and Character; Alternativeness vs. Substitutivity; Alternativeness vs. Psychological Syndromesof Dissociation; The problem of Personality's Uniquenessand Multiplicity; Identity and Re-identification; CHAPTER SEVEN; From Semiotic Square to a Dynamic Square of Choice; Algorithm of Choice. How to Choose?; From Historical to Historiographical Alternativeness; Theoretical Conclusionsand an Introduction to the Discussion of Agnon's Work; CHAPTER EIGHT; The City with All That Is Therein as Alternative History. Holocaust and Miracle.
- Book Two. "The First Rabbis of Our City"Fish and Salt: "In Search of a Rabbi, or The Spirit of the Ruler"; The Hollow of a Sling: "The Parable and the Moral"; CONCLUSIONS; WORKS CITED; INDEX OF NAMES.
