The Resource American fiction and the metaphysics of the grotesque, Dieter Meindl
American fiction and the metaphysics of the grotesque, Dieter Meindl
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- Summary
- "By synthesizing Kayser's and Bakhtin's views of the grotesque and Heidegger's philosophy of Being, American Fiction and the Metaphysics of the Grotesque seeks to demonstrate that American fiction from Poe to Pynchon has tried to convey the existential dimension: the pre-individual totality or flow of life, which defines itself against the mind and its linguistic capacity. Dieter Meindl shows how the grotesque, through its self-contradictory nature, has been instrumental in expressing this reality-conception, an antirationalist stance in basic agreement with existential thought. The historical validity of this new metaphysics, which grants precedence to Being--the context of cognition--over the cognizant subject, must be upheld in the face of deconstructive animadversions upon any metaphysics of presence. The notion of decentering the subject, Meindl argues, did not originate with deconstruction. The existential grotesque confirms the protomodernist character of classic American fiction. Meindl traces its course through a number of well-known texts by Melville, James, Gilman, Anderson, Faulkner, and O'Connor, among others. To convey life conceived as motion, these writers had to capture--that is, immobilize--it in their art: an essentially distortive and, therefore, grotesque device. Melville's "Bartleby," dealing with a mort vivant, is the seminal text in this mode of indirectness. As opposed to the existential grotesque, which grants access to a preverbal realm, the linguistic grotesque of postmodern fiction works on the assumption that all reality is referable to language in a textual universe. American Fiction and the Metaphysics of the Grotesque will significantly alter our understanding of certain traditions in American literature."--Publishers website
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xi, 234 pages
- Contents
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- Kayser, Bakhtin, the American Renaissance, Heidegger, and the grotesque
- Poe and the new metaphysics
- Bartleby and death
- The realist-naturalist-Jamesian syndrome
- The modernist grotesque
- Toward the postmodern grotesque
- Isbn
- 9780826210791
- Label
- American fiction and the metaphysics of the grotesque
- Title
- American fiction and the metaphysics of the grotesque
- Statement of responsibility
- Dieter Meindl
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "By synthesizing Kayser's and Bakhtin's views of the grotesque and Heidegger's philosophy of Being, American Fiction and the Metaphysics of the Grotesque seeks to demonstrate that American fiction from Poe to Pynchon has tried to convey the existential dimension: the pre-individual totality or flow of life, which defines itself against the mind and its linguistic capacity. Dieter Meindl shows how the grotesque, through its self-contradictory nature, has been instrumental in expressing this reality-conception, an antirationalist stance in basic agreement with existential thought. The historical validity of this new metaphysics, which grants precedence to Being--the context of cognition--over the cognizant subject, must be upheld in the face of deconstructive animadversions upon any metaphysics of presence. The notion of decentering the subject, Meindl argues, did not originate with deconstruction. The existential grotesque confirms the protomodernist character of classic American fiction. Meindl traces its course through a number of well-known texts by Melville, James, Gilman, Anderson, Faulkner, and O'Connor, among others. To convey life conceived as motion, these writers had to capture--that is, immobilize--it in their art: an essentially distortive and, therefore, grotesque device. Melville's "Bartleby," dealing with a mort vivant, is the seminal text in this mode of indirectness. As opposed to the existential grotesque, which grants access to a preverbal realm, the linguistic grotesque of postmodern fiction works on the assumption that all reality is referable to language in a textual universe. American Fiction and the Metaphysics of the Grotesque will significantly alter our understanding of certain traditions in American literature."--Publishers website
- Cataloging source
- DLC
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- Meindl, Dieter
- Dewey number
- 813.009/1
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PS374.G78
- LC item number
- M45 1996
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- University of Missouri Press
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- American fiction
- Grotesque in literature
- Label
- American fiction and the metaphysics of the grotesque, Dieter Meindl
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-228) and index
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- Contents
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- Kayser, Bakhtin, the American Renaissance, Heidegger, and the grotesque
- Poe and the new metaphysics
- Bartleby and death
- The realist-naturalist-Jamesian syndrome
- The modernist grotesque
- Toward the postmodern grotesque
- Control code
- 35110259
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xi, 234 pages
- Isbn
- 9780826210791
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 96031687
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- unmediated
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- Label
- American fiction and the metaphysics of the grotesque, Dieter Meindl
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-228) and index
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- volume
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- nc
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- rdacarrier
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- txt
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- rdacontent
- Contents
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- Kayser, Bakhtin, the American Renaissance, Heidegger, and the grotesque
- Poe and the new metaphysics
- Bartleby and death
- The realist-naturalist-Jamesian syndrome
- The modernist grotesque
- Toward the postmodern grotesque
- Control code
- 35110259
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xi, 234 pages
- Isbn
- 9780826210791
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 96031687
- Media category
- unmediated
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