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Uttering the Unutterable: Aristotle, Religion, and Literature

Book information

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Year
2023
ISBN
9780228015222
DOI
10.1515/9780228015222
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (15208006 bytes)
Pages
\333
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-09-26 19:57:46

Description

An Aristotelian look at literature as language that expresses the inexpressible. Uttering the Unutterable explores how we use literature as an honorific term to describe texts that are so overpowering that the encounter with meaning exceeds the capacities of ordinary language. Through a new reading of Aristotelian philosophy, Groarke identifies an experience of transcendence as the defining criterion of literature.

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