Experiencing Ways Through Words: On Our Relationships with Language (and So Literature)
Autor Emily Abdeni-Holmanen Limba Engleză Hardback – 18 oct 2024
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9783031549519
ISBN-10: 3031549511
Pagini: 342
Ilustrații: Approx. 340 p.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Ediția:2024
Editura: Springer Nature Switzerland
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland
ISBN-10: 3031549511
Pagini: 342
Ilustrații: Approx. 340 p.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Ediția:2024
Editura: Springer Nature Switzerland
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland
Cuprins
1.-Introduction. -2.-the critical conversation.- literature in the public sphere. -3.-the attitudinal realm. -Leavis’s early writings. -4.-enabling.-being language animals.-Index.
Notă biografică
Emily Abdeni-Holman is a British-Lebanese writer. Currently a junior research fellow at Campion Hall, Oxford, she recently published Body Tectonic, a work of news poetry on Lebanon’s socioeconomic crisis.
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Michael D. Hurley, Professor of Literature and Theology, Trinity College, Cambridge:
A wonderfully engaging and insightful book on what John Henry Newman once called ‘the two-fold Logos’. Experiencing Ways Through Words conjures brilliantly with the paradoxical question of how thought and word may be distinct and yet inseparable from each other, bound together through the aesthetic as well as the semantic elements of language that define the reader’s experience.
Seamus Perry, Balliol College, Oxford:
In this rich and intricately argued book, full of literary and philosophical instances, Abdeni-Holman explores the ways in which imaginative language discovers and sustains relationship with the human world. At its centre is a brilliant and sympathetic re-reading of the work of F.R. Leavis -- not as the heavy moralist of popular reputation, but rather as a deft celebrant of the "engagement, thoughtfulness, attention" which this splendid work identifies as the heart of the readerly encounter. An absorbing and championing piece of writing.
Emily Abdeni-Holman’s verve, eloquence and erudition affirm critical reading as an indispensable discipline of intelligence for dangerous times. Her concept of the attitudinal realm captures language’s central role in creatively constituting the human lifeworld, and shows how great literature can empower us when that world is under threat as never before.
John Foster, author of Realism and the Climate Crisis: Hope for Life
Michael Wood, Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature, Princeton University:
In theoretical discussions of literature, it is rare - far too rare - to find voices that are not looking to simplify or win an argument. The many attractions of this remarkable book include its patient attention to complexity and its refusal (and exposure) of loaded binary oppositions. It invites us to think of literature as offering 'connections, echoes, beckonings, gestures', and indeed on occasion practical advice. Except that the advice doesn't look like advice, and it may arrive rather slowly. The book's many facetted claim is in already in its title. Literature is words at work, and to read literature is to benefit from that work and to live with it. 'Literature', the author says, 'is where our attitude to language is most open and spacious, where we don’t just allow but desire language to be as much of an agent as we are'. For her the notion of form includes 'everything to do with "how"'. It is not an exaggeration to think of this book as a critical rescue operation, where literature may be saved from many of its admirers as well as from almost all of its detractors.
This is a brave and subtle book offering a passionate understanding of what serious literary reading is, at a time when it is perhaps most threatened and least understood.
Philip Davis Emeritus Professor of Literature and Psychology University of Liverpool
We tend to think of ourselves using language. What if we thought instead about language working on us, or about language as something we experience rather than make use of? This book explores the generative capacities of language, arguing that we need to pay much greater attention to the meaning-making capabilities, and political and moral implications, of more intangible aspects of language: atmosphere, mood, texture, the mode-of-being a use of language carries — and not only carries, but gives off, sends into both its reader and writer. Advancing an interpretation of language as fundamentally attitudinal and creative, Experiencing Ways Through Words explores literature in the light of such thinking, claiming that properties we tend to sideline as ‘aesthetic’ are profoundly constitutive of a text’s capacity for significance.
Emily Abdeni-Holman is a British-Lebanese writer. Currently a junior research fellow at Campion Hall, Oxford, she recently published Body Tectonic, a work of news poetry on Lebanon’s socioeconomic crisis.
A wonderfully engaging and insightful book on what John Henry Newman once called ‘the two-fold Logos’. Experiencing Ways Through Words conjures brilliantly with the paradoxical question of how thought and word may be distinct and yet inseparable from each other, bound together through the aesthetic as well as the semantic elements of language that define the reader’s experience.
Seamus Perry, Balliol College, Oxford:
In this rich and intricately argued book, full of literary and philosophical instances, Abdeni-Holman explores the ways in which imaginative language discovers and sustains relationship with the human world. At its centre is a brilliant and sympathetic re-reading of the work of F.R. Leavis -- not as the heavy moralist of popular reputation, but rather as a deft celebrant of the "engagement, thoughtfulness, attention" which this splendid work identifies as the heart of the readerly encounter. An absorbing and championing piece of writing.
Emily Abdeni-Holman’s verve, eloquence and erudition affirm critical reading as an indispensable discipline of intelligence for dangerous times. Her concept of the attitudinal realm captures language’s central role in creatively constituting the human lifeworld, and shows how great literature can empower us when that world is under threat as never before.
John Foster, author of Realism and the Climate Crisis: Hope for Life
Michael Wood, Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature, Princeton University:
In theoretical discussions of literature, it is rare - far too rare - to find voices that are not looking to simplify or win an argument. The many attractions of this remarkable book include its patient attention to complexity and its refusal (and exposure) of loaded binary oppositions. It invites us to think of literature as offering 'connections, echoes, beckonings, gestures', and indeed on occasion practical advice. Except that the advice doesn't look like advice, and it may arrive rather slowly. The book's many facetted claim is in already in its title. Literature is words at work, and to read literature is to benefit from that work and to live with it. 'Literature', the author says, 'is where our attitude to language is most open and spacious, where we don’t just allow but desire language to be as much of an agent as we are'. For her the notion of form includes 'everything to do with "how"'. It is not an exaggeration to think of this book as a critical rescue operation, where literature may be saved from many of its admirers as well as from almost all of its detractors.
This is a brave and subtle book offering a passionate understanding of what serious literary reading is, at a time when it is perhaps most threatened and least understood.
Philip Davis Emeritus Professor of Literature and Psychology University of Liverpool
We tend to think of ourselves using language. What if we thought instead about language working on us, or about language as something we experience rather than make use of? This book explores the generative capacities of language, arguing that we need to pay much greater attention to the meaning-making capabilities, and political and moral implications, of more intangible aspects of language: atmosphere, mood, texture, the mode-of-being a use of language carries — and not only carries, but gives off, sends into both its reader and writer. Advancing an interpretation of language as fundamentally attitudinal and creative, Experiencing Ways Through Words explores literature in the light of such thinking, claiming that properties we tend to sideline as ‘aesthetic’ are profoundly constitutive of a text’s capacity for significance.
Emily Abdeni-Holman is a British-Lebanese writer. Currently a junior research fellow at Campion Hall, Oxford, she recently published Body Tectonic, a work of news poetry on Lebanon’s socioeconomic crisis.
Caracteristici
Examines both reading and writing in relation to the generativity of language Argues that we need to pay much greater attention to the meaning-making capabilities of language Offers a radical reread of the literary criticism of F. R. Leavis