{"product_id":"modern-paradigms-9780761869351","title":"Modern Paradigms","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book addresses students and professors interested in comparative literature and the complex problematic of modernity\/postmodernity, hermeneutics, literary, and cultural theory within the past few decades of the 20th century. The author explores the works of Dostoyevsky, Thomas Mann, M. Proust, W. Faulkner, and Emil Cioran. It is a welcome opportunity for the scholarly audience to familiarize themselves with contemporary Romanian literature and literary theory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA reference study in comparative literature, Professor Ilie Gyurcsik’s book represents an exceptional analysis of certain exemplary (‘paradigmatic’) texts and comprises, displayed into a postmodern spirit, the tension inherent to a double perspective: the direct perspective, which is ‘Renaissance-like’ and proper to historical modernity, and the inverted perspective, which is literally-semantic, ludic, and fragmentary, and is proper to radical aesthetic modernity; a tension between the work and the text, between the paralogical delirium and the logic of the paradox, between a “pharaohic” vision and an “archeological” one. -- Ioan Nicolae Anghel, Editor, Amarcord Press, Timisoara, Romania\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExplanation  Introductory Dream Chapter 1: The “Author” As Player and Master of the Game: Dostoyevsky Chapter 2: Unweaving the Textual Costume: Thomas Mann  Chapter 3: The Mantle of the Reading and the Reading of the Mantle: Proust Chapter 4: The Fringe of the Harlequin’s Mantle: Joyce Chapter 5: The Trial of the Letter and the Letter of the Trial: Kafka Chapter 6: The (Un)Mytho-Historiographic Mantle: Faulkner Chapter 7: The Mantle Of The Mega(Un)Syllogism: Cioran Author, Mantle, Toys References","brand":"Rlpg\/Galleys","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037891264855,"sku":"9780761869351","price":54.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780761869351.jpg?v=1750938045","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/modern-paradigms-9780761869351","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}