Literature and Philosophy
Telling Tales of Nonsense
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge India
- Date of Publication 26 September 2025
- ISBN 9781032978208
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages168 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 310 g
- Language English 783
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Short description:
This book examines the relationship between literature and philosophy.
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This book examines the relationship between literature and philosophy. It investigates seemingly incomprehensible behaviors from the perspective of philosophy and expounds on love by using, among others, Darwinism, Marxism, Existentialism, Plato, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Barthes as tools of investigation. The author deconstructs some 20 literary texts and presents a work of literary criticism in which literary theories are blended with philosophical theories on the self.
A significant contribution, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of comparative literature, philosophy, philosophy of literature, modern fiction, modernism, and postmodernism.
"Probing into the entrenched bond between love, sexuality, and violence and its function of state-building in twentieth century Latin America, this book is a fascinating re-interpretation of the literature within the context of the political and social tumults. Rethinking history in an age when authoritative history is mistrusted, its clarification on the “structure of feeling” of Latin American geo-cultural reality points to a cartographic imagination and re-enchantment of the complex reality. A must read for students of literature, sociology and cultural studies."
Xiaoping Wang, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Tongji University, China.
"In Labyrinths of Love, Alberto Castelli offers sensitive and perceptive new investigations of some of the major voices in Latin American literature. In so doing, he examines various conceptions of love and how they both intersect with and subvert larger sociopolitical concerns. Castelli's volume delivers a strong combination of theoretical understanding and close reading."
James M. Decker (Ph.D.), Co-Editor, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies.
MoreTable of Contents:
Preface vi Acknowledgments xiii 1 Recalling metanarrative: Darwinism in literature 1 2 A love that kills: The Idiot 18 3 Philosophical and textual strands of Il deserto dei tartari 39 4 Shades of love in Love in the Time of Cholera 56 5 Camus, the absurd Meursault, and Alexandros Panagoulis 72 6 Prisoners of life: Dostoevsky’s hero and anti-hero 87 7 The bad faith of the nonexistent knight 101 8 Neo-platonic love in fictional obsession 120 Epilogue 138 Bibliography 141 Index 153
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