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Entangled voices :

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0195102630

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6610528594

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9780195102635

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Entangled voices :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

genre and the religious construction of the self /

First Statement of Responsibility

Frederick J. Ruf

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

x, 125 pages ;

Dimensions

22 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-120) and index

Text of Note

In this book, Ruf tries to understand how the concepts of "voice" and "genre" function in 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

Text of Note

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

Title

Entangled voices.

International Standard Book Number

1429415606

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor,1772-1834., Biographia literaria

Donne, John,1572-1631., Holy sonnets

Glass, Philip., Einstein on the beach

Levi, Primo., Sistema periodico

Wilson, Robert,1941-Criticism and interpretation

Literary form

Religious literature, English-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc

Self in literature

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Ruf, Frederick J.,1950-

Date of Transaction

20160712061913.0

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[Book]

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