Skip to main navigation Skip to main content
info(at)avldigital.remove-this.de
Deutsch English
Narrow Search
Search narrowed by
Last searches

Results for *

Displaying results 1 to 2 of 2.

  1. Intuition of an infinite obligation
    narrative ethics and postmodern gnostics in the fiction of E.L. Doctorow
    Author: Walker Bergström, Catharine
    Published: c2010
    Publisher:  Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main

    Export to reference management software   RIS file
      BibTeX file
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 363158749X; 9783631587492; 9783653002737
    Series: Anglo-amerikanische Studien ; Bd. 38
    Subjects: Roman; Postmoderne; Gnosis <Motiv>; Ethik <Motiv>; Erzähltechnik
    Other subjects: Doctorow, E. L. (1931-); Doctorow, E. L. (1931-2015)
    Scope: 189 p
    Notes:

    Based on a Ph.D. thesis (Narrative ethics and intuition of the infinite) -- University of Gothenburg, 2008

    Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-189)
  2. Intuition of an Infinite Obligation
    Narrative Ethics and Postmodern Gnostics in the Fiction of E. L. Doctorow
    Author: Walker Bergstroem, Catharine
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Lang, Peter, GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Frankfurt

    Location:
    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
    Signature:
    Online-Ressource
    Inter-library loan:
    No inter-library loan
    Export to reference management software   RIS file
      BibTeX file
    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783631587492
    Series: Anglo-amerikanische Studien ; Bd. 38
    Scope: Online-Ressource (194 p)
    Notes:

    Description based upon print version of record

    Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

    Table of Contents; 1. Introduction 11; Ethics, deconstruction and postmodern gnosis 24; Historical background 27; 2. Trials of the Truth: Welcome to Hard Times, The Book of Daniel and Ragtime 35; Postmodern ethics and narrative ethics 38; Narrative ethics in history and fiction 39; Myth, antimyth, and the ethics of lamentation 42; The aesthetics of truthfulness 45; Welcome to Hard Times 46; The Book of Daniel 53; Ragtime 64; 3. An Intuition of the Self: Loon Lake and Billy Bathgate 81; Emerson and Jung 92; Loon Lake 96; Billy Bathgate 112

    4. The Ethics of Narrating Gnosis: The Waterworks and City of God 127Definitions of Gnosticism 131; Gnosis and the Kabbalah 134; Postmodern Gnosticism 138; The Waterworks 143; City of God 152; 5. The Ethical Challenge in Difference 175; Bibliography 179