CiNii 図書 - The wreath of wild olive : play, liminality, and the study of literature

Mihai Spariosu's book strikingly intervenes in the debate raging among the various oppositional and hegemonic discourses by advancing a new philosophy that transcends the currently prevailing agonistic mentality. He develops a ludic-irenic view intended to exceed both a voluntaristic and rationalist mode of thought, thereby convincingly opposing the all-pervading mentality of power in a world marked by difference, scapegoating, and strife between various social, ethnic, racial, and sexual factions. The ludic-irenic stance, basically derived from the playfulness of literature, produces alternative mentalities and alternative worlds which promote a responsive understanding of what there is, thus bringing to bear a healing influence within the human community, in which power and difference will cease to be ultimates. What Spariosu puts forward and demonstrates by means of a stupendous erudition is no less than a total reorientation of cultural criticism that is bound to have its impact on the course cultural studies will take.

Acknowledgements Introduction Part One: Toward a Ludic-Irenic Theory of Literature And Culture: Intellectual Historical Background, Basic Principles 1. Nietzsche or Schopenhauer: Can One Construct an Alternative Mentality? 2. Liminality, Literary Discourse, and Alternative Worlds 3. Difference, Identity, and Otherness: A Ludic-Irenic Perspective Part Two: Literary Thematics And Ludic-Irenic Hermeneutics 4. Homicide as Play: Dostoevsky, Gide, Aiken 5. Race, Ethnicity, and Irenic Mentality: Rebreanu, Eliade, Devi 6. Allegory, Power, and the Postmodern Game of Interpretation: Nabokov, Lowry, Orwell Part Three: Ludic-Irenic Approaches to Cultural Criticism 7. Criticism as Irenic Play: The Case of the Victorian Sages Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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